Softwaiz Stories

Engineering deep dives and architectural teardowns from the team building Softwaiz's products.

The same terracotta cell with concentric rings from the previous post, now connected by a line downward to two stacked squares — one hollow and rejected, one solid and accepted — evoking a storage backend swapped out before it reached production.

September 17, 2026Part 2 of RedwoodSDK

RedwoodSDK, Finally Unlocked from Cloudflare

The first post proved RedwoodSDK could run on celld. This one takes it all the way to production — a storage-backend correctness bug, the CI/CD pipeline and real bugs that came with automating the deploy, and a live, synchronized multiplayer game serving real players off a self-hosted fleet with no Cloudflare anywhere in the chain.

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A solid terracotta cell with a white inset square, two faint concentric rings around it, and a thin line breaking past the rings to a small white circle outside — evoking a cell growing past its own boundary.

September 14, 2026Part 1 of RedwoodSDK

What RedwoodSDK Actually Depends On

RedwoodSDK targets Cloudflare Workers exclusively. We tried running one of its apps on celld — a self-hosted reimplementation of the same primitives — to find out whether that's a framework limit or just a default.

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Two thin lines converging from separate points into a single solid terracotta circle with a small square inset, evoking concurrent requests routed to one durable, persistent object.

August 25, 2026Part 2 of The Cloudflare Stack

Why Durable Objects Replaced Our Polling Loop

The coordination problem AlloResto's live order board had on Postgres, and how one Durable Object per restaurant location fixed it.

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