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Why we're moving off Cloudflare Durable Objects
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Wire is transitioning from Cloudflare Durable Objects to a newly rebuilt container runtime for its context containers used by AI agents. The new data plane has been benchmarked against the previous system using identical data and queries.
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- Praise: Cloudflare Durable Objects are praised for their unmatched availability and consistency on a global scale, making them the gold standard for reliability.
- Praise: The new infrastructure offers more control, which could lead to better performance in the long run if durability is achieved.
- Concern: Fly.io's uptime and availability are seen as unreliable, raising serious doubts about moving away from Cloudflare's robust offerings.
- Concern: The comment about AI writing the blog post suggests a lack of authenticity and concern over the quality of communication from the team.