[rita3ko]

hi there! i'm on the workers team at cloudflare.

you're right that the ideal application would run fully on the edge (which is why we try to offer things like KV, Durable Objects, and more options in the future for you to have your data where your logic is running).

however — moving your data to the edge is unlikely to happen overnight. and it's going to take us a bit to offer you all the data options for all the different use cases that you need (after all, there are many types of databases for a reason), so this gives users greater optionality. secondly, if your data is already somewhere but you want to build new features on top of it, now you can. (say, i already have a database with all my apartment listings in it, but i want to add a new feature where i let my users add photos of the apts). i can now build that feature in workers, without having to undergo an otherwise massive migration.

one last thing, this is just the beginning of what even database connectors mean. in the future, we can cache data, and actually improve performance and reliability even if the dc is far (as you said, make it easier to have best of both worlds).

[uluyol]

Thanks for the response! I hadn't considered that last trick. If you can make it work well, it will be pretty cool.