[Durable Objects] Adding "What are Durable Objects" chapter. #19570
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| A Durable Object is a special kind of [Cloudflare Worker](/workers/) which uniquely combines compute with storage. Like a Worker, a Durable Object is automatically provisioned geographically close to where it is first requested, starts up quickly when needed, and shuts down when idle. You can have millions of them around the world. However, unlike regular Workers: |
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Might be worth indicating that, unlike a Cloudflare Worker, a Durable Object cannot be accessed directly. Requests from the public internet first need to go through a Worker, the Worker makes a call to the Durable Object via the binding. That's a pretty significant difference
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In this page there isn't any mention of code specific things, so I believe this doesn't fit well in these sections.
It's important, 100%, but someone new reading this page won't understand that part anyway without code.
The other tutorial/walkthrough pages should cover this detail.
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@lambrospetrou has authored a "What are Durable Objects?" chapter which introduces users to the overall concept of DO.
Thanks to all the contributors: @vy-ton @joshthoward @Frederik-Baetens @justin-mp @a-robinson
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