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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Oct 4

Just read your bio, I ate the onion 🫡

Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Oct 4

SQLite is still in the works, but we've built an open-source alternative to DO over at rivet.dev

Built to be as easy as possible to host on-prem. Supports both dedi hardware & serverless.

Happy to answer any questions!

Rivet - Build and scale stateful workloads

Rivet is a library for long-lived processes with durable state, realtime, and scalability. Easily self-hostable and works with your infrastructure.

rivet.dev

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Reposted by Nathan Flurry 🔩

devtools.fm @devtools.fm · Oct 3

In the age of AI do libraries or SAAS win?

@nathanflurry.com thinks it'll choose libraries

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkx2...
open.spotify.com/episode/1An4...

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Oct 1

Yep! Effect clusters & workflows are in alpha. There's some overlap, everything looks like an actor if you squint hard enough haha.

One of these weekends I'll roll a deeper Effect integration, but I haven't figured out how to correctly handle restoring Effects for durability.

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Oct 1

Aye – our chat example should look pretty similar to what you're looking for! github.com/rivet-dev/ri...

github.com

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Oct 1

We've been building an OSS actor system for the JS ecosystem over at rivet.dev too with a lot of parallels to Durable Objects – always open to feedback!

Rivet - The open-source alternative to Durable Objects

Rivet is a library for long-lived processes with durable state, realtime, and scalability. Easily self-hostable and works with your infrastructure.

rivet.dev

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Aug 12

DMs always open if you have questions!

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Aug 12

We're building an open-source alternative to Durable Objects that runs in most clouds. We don't support Deno Deploy yet, but it could happen.

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Jul 31

Durable Objects SQLite is also quite nice!

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Jun 21

damn this thing should replace product managers

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Jun 4

Oh no hahaha, that's what I get for copying grammar proofs out of Claude

I promise this post is 100% non-AGI hand-written otherwise 😅

Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Jun 2

New blog post dropped: why Traefik was the slowest part of our stack & how we rewrote it from scratch in Rust 🦀

My 2025 H2 goal is to get really good at technical writing – this is the first of many posts to come

I loved writing every word of this, I hope you enjoy it too ⬇️

Rivet @rivet.gg · Jun 2

We are achieving 2,000x faster route propagation by rewriting Traefik in Rust.

Built for our open-source serverless platform:
- Lazy route resolution
- Request buffering for cold starts
- Infinite scaling
- Single stateless Rust binary

Technical deep dive: rivet.gg/blog/2025-06...

2,000x faster route propagation by rewriting our Traefik gateway in Rust

Rivet is an open-source, self-hostable serverless platform that supports Rivet Functions, Rivet Actors (open-source Cloudflare Durable Objects), and Rivet Containers. We've rewritten our Traefik-based...

rivet.gg

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Apr 9

Announcing: 🎨 Rivet Studio v1.0

A powerful development environment for @rivet.gg Actors & Cloudflare Durable Objects for realtime apps.

🧠 View/edit actor state
📞 Test RPCs like Postman
🔍 Explore live connections
🔥 Hot reload everything

→ studio.rivet.gg

youtube.com/shorts/LXUNq...

Introducing Rivet Studio

YouTube video by Rivet

youtube.com

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 30

this is so cool! how was your experience with turso?

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 23

📝 @threepointone.bsky.social ask and ye shall receive 5,041 words

rivet.gg/blog/2025-03...

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 22

i hear this a lot! which of the technical limitations have you ran in to?

Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 22

Docs: actorcore.org/introduction

GitHub: github.com/rivet-gg/act...

Clip: www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxawK...

Thx @jross.me for surfacing the clip

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 22

"The only people I know actually getting Durable Objects working are Cloudflare employees" - @t3.gg on stream

If you're curious about Durable Objects but not the complexity:

ActorCore.org has been my obsession for the past month to make DO as simple as possible

Example code & GitHub below ⬇️

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 21

@rivet.gg ActorCore spotted in the wild 👀

Local-First News @localfirstnews.bsky.social · Mar 20

2025.03.20 edition is out 🌅 🌃

www.localfirstnews.com/2025-03-20/

2025.03.20

📰 News & Discussions Vancouver Hack Day - Personal AI "Own your AI! With open models becoming more and more powerful, what new types of applications can we create with AI agents that run securely and privately on our own devices and data? Join us on March 29th, 2025 for a hack

www.localfirstnews.com

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 21

Docs: actorcore.org/clients/rust

GitHub: github.com/rivet-gg/act...

Rust - ActorCore

actorcore.org

Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 21

New in ActorCore v0.7.4: Rust client support 🦀

$ cargo add actor-core-client

It's:
✅ stupid fast
✅ runs anywhere
✅ ready to ship

Check out the docs & repo 🧵

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 16

Docs: actorcore.org/introduction

GitHub: github.com/rivet-gg/act...

ActorCore - ActorCore

Stateful, Scalable, Realtime Backend Framework

actorcore.org

Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 16

🤌 i talked to sooo many devs to refine ActorCore v0.7's new api. the same code in Durable Objects is now 4x longer

✅ pure functions, no more `extends Actor`
✅ split actors x-file
✅ short & fun to write

try this thing and tell me it's not the best way to write realtime apps

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 5

🔶 ActorCore 0.6.0 just shipped with a super slick create-actor cli and overhauled docs

create your first stateful, scalable, realtime actor with:

$ npx create-actor@latest

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Nathan Flurry 🔩 @nathanflurry.com · Mar 3

oh dang, some rando posted our blog to HN and it’s climbing.

give it a read + an upvote!

news.ycombinator.com

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