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Deno is joining Cloudflare

Oct 9, 2026Kenton Varda, Ryan Dahl
Deno is joining Cloudflare
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This post announces the joining of the Deno team with Cloudflare, specifically merging Deno's celld project with Cloudflare's workerd. The core contribution is the integration of celld's distributed systems capabilities with workerd's Workers and Durable Objects runtime. This aims to provide a self-hostable, distributed version of the Workers programming model, addressing the difficulty of running distributed applications outside of Cloudflare's managed network. Celld's focus on a single binary with object storage as its only external dependency is highlighted as a simplification for developers managing distributed applications.

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