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For the last few months, I've been building almost exclusively with Cloudflare Durable Objects (DOs). They are a wonderful primitive for building products (particularly agents), and I wish more providers out there had a similar offering. There really isn't anything like them in the market. As I was comparing notes with various friends, I realized that most people haven't really even heard of DOs, and don't understand why they are such a big deal. It's a shame because they really are a near-perfect fit for building agents on top of them. I won't gloss over the fact that there are shortcomings with DOs, and I wanted to share some thoughts about where they shine as well as where they fall short. Disclosure: I am long a small amount of NET and am very bullish on their prospects. What are Durable Objects? Durable Objects combine a few simple concepts... A serverless V8 isolate for running your code. It spins up and down on demand. You write some form of code that is JS/WASM compatible and…

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