Workers KV for Session State: An Architecture Note
Workers KV removes the origin round trip from session lookups, but its consistency model decides your logout behavior, your cache settings, and when you need Durable Objects instead.
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Workers KV removes the origin round trip from session lookups, but its consistency model decides your logout behavior, your cache settings, and when you need Durable Objects instead.
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