I know part of the team's consideration for adding more testers is knowing what workloads you'll try, so giving context on what you want to do can help them prioritize

Folks are still being added to the beta on a case-by-case basis, but as Albert mentioned, context could help us possibly get you started sooner

The free plan of Pages is spectacular, genuinely can't wait until I get access

got it, just shared my info with Albert 👍

Hi there, I built a POC for a globally distributed CDP on workers and KV with a latency of ~15ms for generating user profiles. Sadly I get into trouble cause KV has no transactions. That's why I'd like to use durable objects for it. I already filled out an application but would like to get my hands on it as fast as possible. Is there an option to speed it up? 🙂

My use case is to use web sockets to share context between users. I would like to instantiate users in our system as Objects (durable) and then build methods out as product features. KV is amazing but lack of transactions and latency kills these cases.

I'd like to get access to Durable Objects, pretty please. We building a new single page app for surfers that collects Buoy data from http://cdip.ucsd.edu/ and performing spectral analysis to generate easy to digest visual information about the various swells in the water and wind and tide data to provide surfers with a consolidated and easy to digest view of the current state of surf at various surfspots around them. The use of Durable objects would be as the persistence layer of the application for user and subscription data (basically replace a traditional rdbms like postgres or mysql). Our calculated spectral analysis files are being stored in KV already and that is a good place for them since they get computed at most once per half hour per Buoy worldwide and will have write once read many access patterns. The user data on the other hand needs to be transactional. At first I expect that all the data access will be very local, e.g. surfers in San Diego will be looking at stuff that is around them, its probably unlikely to trigger any big data migrations across datacenters. If we are unlikely to get access any time soon, please let me know as we need to push forward on our development. Our spectral analysis calculations sometimes run over the 50ms limit so im probably going to need unbound as well. If it makes any difference I have sent hudreds of thousands of dollars your way as CTO of a few other companies. We are just getting this new one off the ground and I'd love to build as much as possible on the Cloudflare platform.

Thanks for sharing, will DM you on DO and Unbound

@User I have some feedback on the Transactional Storage API:- It would be great if the ‘list’ API for an object had an additional parameter like 'keyNamesOnly' in addition to limit, offsets etc such that only the key names are returned rather than both keys and actual values. I posted some more info on the Forum recently: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/durable-objects-transactional-storage-api-feedback/236061

Did anyone try using CRDT on DO yet? I assume it allows for reasonable connection durations and storage for such collaborative applications?

Is there any rough timeline on when durable objects might see GA for those of us who have not been invited to the beta? Just curious as to whether its 1st half 2021, 2nd half, unknown? If its first half I am going to wait. If its 2nd half or unknown I've got to move onto some other solution for now.

I am not sure about GA, but we'll almost certainly have a much wider beta within the 1st half of 2021.

i will, as soon as I’ll get beta access 😛 not just automerge etc, but also fancy stuff like async schema upgrade

I'm thinking of developing a server for a real-time browser game. I hope DO will be a great fit for game servers.

Not yet in though. /shrug

same 👀 was wondering if i could port the server component of https://boardgame.io into durable objects

that would be cool. What's your board game of choice @User ?

👋 I'm on the DD waiting list to create a real-time CAD drawing app. Planning to buy-into edge big-time with KV store and RUST workers. Anything built anything similar? I'd love some tips!

Just wanted to say, the waiting room is super neat. Great use of DO

Do you want to see ho that works? 😛

I would love to!

So, when it works it shows a namespace error (it's a Workers Site website, didn't bother putting anything as a test page as it works just fine).

It needs a minimun of 200 users, so I'm loading it now... it's not easy to test normally ahah

Now it will queue everyone indefinitely.

I'm in the waiting room!

This is really cool

And you'll be forever, until I turn it off, since it's in the Queue All mode. "undefined" minutes, I guess, right?

Yeah says undefined

Man am I so excited for the future of workers