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Possibly. We did not base the design (or name) of Durable Objects on any other product we were aware of (except arguably Sandstorm.io, which was my startup befo
by kentonv 6y ago
Possibly. We did not base the design (or name) of Durable Objects on any other product we were aware of (except arguably Sandstorm.io, which was my startup before joining Cloudflare). I haven't looked closely at Azure Durable Functions.
We actually did call this product "Actors" internally for a long time, but we found that people who had done previous Actor Model work (e.g. in Erlang) ended up more confused than enlightened by this name, so we ditched it.
- cgillum 6y agoInterestingly, Azure's Durable Entities has a similar feature set and similar story of origin (internally called it actors, then switched to "entities" to avoid confusion): https://medium.com/@cgillum/azure-functions-durable-entities-67db648d2f74 https://medium.com/@cgillum/azure-functions-durable-entities...