Author here! I agree it's very similar to the actor model, but I kept the article's scope small, so I didn’t cover that. In fact – Durable Objects talks a bit

Author here! I agree it's very similar to the actor model, but I kept the article's scope small, so I didn’t cover that. In fact – Durable Objects talks a bit about its parallels with the actor model here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/what-are-durable-objects/#actor-programming-model https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/what-are-d... You might also appreciate this talk on building a loosely related architecture using Erlang, though it doesn't implement an actor-per-database pattern – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGVdGLBJEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGVdGLBJEo