Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute https://ift.tt/z9b8gKm
Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute Hi HN, we're Thomas and Olivier from Terse ( https://ift.tt/QME4mbJ ) We've built Durable Actors, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare's Durable Objects. A Durable Object/Actor is a tiny server that handles one request at a time and has its own SQLite database. There's exactly one of each in the world and it is addressed by name. This is the perfect primitive for deploying multiplayer agents. Each agent can have its own Durable Actor, and each user can connect to that Actor via websocket. This is fully horizontally scalable. Your users can deploy and share agents at will without putting pressure on a central DB or websocket server. Durable Actors are also great for coordinating agents within a system. Since only one request is handled at a time, you can protect critical data such as a CRM and allow multiple agents to run concurrently without worrying about data races. The only alternative to thi...