Better Auth Rate Limiting Incompatible with Cloudflare Edge Storage
Better Auth's rate limiting system assumes simple key-value storage patterns, making it incompatible with strongly consistent or coordination-based backends like Cloudflare Durable Objects. Developers building on edge runtimes (Cloudflare Workers) cannot implement reliable strict rate limiting because the library offers no pluggable storage adapter interface for this layer. This is a specific gap in one open-source library affecting a niche but growing segment of edge-deployed applications.
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