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Cloudflare launched K2 in public beta, a serverless durable event-streaming primitive on its Developer Platform: you write events to a stream that stores them as an ordered log, and consumers can either split reads across a consumer set or receive every message. It is implemented as a partitioned, durable log on top of R2 object storage, and was originally built to serve as the ingestion layer for Cloudflare's Basin Pipelines, which commits to never dropping accepted events. Cloudflare says it could not just deploy Apache Kafka because its edge spans over 335 cities and gives it small machine slices, ephemeral machines, and networking over the public internet.

Why: If you are already on Workers and hand-rolling buffering with queues or Durable Objects, or self-hosting Kafka for an event log, this is a beta alternative with R2-backed retention that survives long consumer downtime. The excerpt gives no pricing, retention limits, throughput numbers, or latency figures, so you cannot cost-compare it against Kafka or your current queue today — the practical move is to prototype a non-critical event path on it and measure, not to plan a migration.