Why We Outgrew Cloudflare D1 (And Everything We Tried Before Building Our Own Solution) (opens in new tab)

We run our entire product on Cloudflare. Not "mostly on Cloudflare" or "Cloudflare for the edge layer" - we mean the whole thing: workers, storage, AI, queues, real-time WebSockets, and everything in between. That decision made us, arguably, one of the most demanding power users of Cloudflare's infrastructure in existence. It also meant we hit every sharp edge of every product they ship, usually long before anyone else did - and because we were so deeply reliant on the entire stack, an outage...