Durable Object input gates block new events during storage operations, preventing races
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:30.083Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:30.083Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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While a Durable Object is awaiting a storage operation the runtime does not deliver new events to it, so concurrent incoming requests wait. That is the input gate, and it means a read-modify-write spanning an await of get and then put cannot interleave with another request the way it would in an ordinary async server.
The output gate is the complement: outgoing messages and responses are held until pending writes are confirmed durable, so a client never sees an acknowledgement for a write that was subsequently lost. The gates cover storage awaits only. An await on fetch to an external service does open the object to concurrent events, so state that is only protected across a network call still needs an explicit lock or a queue inside the object.
Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/api/storage-api/
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