The Road to Async Context
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Covers how async local storage was implemented and optimized in Node and Cloudflare Workers, explaining continuations and execution contexts and how contextual data is propagated through asynchronous flows. Describes the implementation challenges in Node, argues for a standardized API, and presents async context as a replacement for async local storage along with its benefits and current development status.
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