I Was Thinking in Databases. I Should Have Been Thinking in Networks: A Mental Model Shift for Cloudflare Storage
I spent far too long misunderstanding Cloudflare’s storage products. Not because the APIs are complex, but because I was thinking about them as traditional databases. In this article, I explain how KV, D1, Hyperdrive, Durable Objects, and R2 actually work when you view them as network-level primitives, not just storage layers.