--- title: Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that... description: Cloudflare is acquiring the team behind Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. Deno's standalone runtime and Deno Deploy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-acquires-node-js-creator-s-startup-that-copied-its-serverless-playbook-fmrzpepzw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare is acquiring the team behind Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. Deno's standalone runtime and Deno Deploy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-acquires-node-js-creator-s-startup-that-copied-its-serverless-playbook-fmrzpepzw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fmRZpEPzW.png og:image:alt: Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare is acquiring the team behind Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. Deno's standalone runtime and Deno Deploy hosting service will be wound down, with the team shifting focus to Cloudflare Workers. The move comes just two months after Deno launched Celld, an open-source project that explicitly recreated Cloudflare's Workers and Durable Objects model for self-hosted use. Cloudflare plans to merge Celld into its existing Workerd runtime, with Dahl and co-founder Bert Belder leading the effort. Deno's runtime gets a year of maintenance updates, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months with migration help for paying customers, and the JSR package registry continues under Cloudflare. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is Deno Deploy shutting down after the Cloudflare acquisition? Yes, Deno Deploy will shut down six months after the October 2026 acquisition announcement, with migration assistance offered to paying customers. The standalone Deno runtime will continue to receive monthly maintenance and security updates for one more year before development ends. The JSR package registry will keep running under Cloudflare's ownership. _Teams relying on Deno Deploy can track migration timelines and alternatives on daily.dev as the shutdown unfolds._ ### What happens to Deno's Celld project after Cloudflare's acquisition of Deno? Celld, Deno's open-source recreation of Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects for self-hosted infrastructure, will be merged into Cloudflare's existing Workerd runtime. Ryan Dahl and Deno co-founder Bert Belder will lead this merger effort, aiming to make Cloudflare's programming model easier to run on independently managed infrastructure outside Cloudflare's own network. _Developers evaluating self-hosted serverless runtimes can follow the Celld and Workerd merger on daily.dev._ ### Why did Cloudflare acquire Ryan Dahl's Deno team? Cloudflare acquired the entire Deno team because Deno had built strong developer-experience expertise around self-hosted runtimes that Cloudflare's own open-source Workers runtime, workerd, never achieved. Cloudflare distinguished engineer Kenton Varda admitted Cloudflare had not built out the ecosystem of tooling needed to make workerd practical outside its network, a gap Deno's Celld project had just addressed. _Anyone weighing Cloudflare Workers against self-hosted alternatives can follow this consolidation on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Deno Goes the Way of the Dinosaur](https://daily.dev/posts/deno-goes-the-way-of-the-dinosaur-higck2lpu) · Socket · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Thank You, Deno](https://daily.dev/posts/thank-you-deno-1iigdcdgv) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news), [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare), [#deno](https://daily.dev/tags/deno) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-acquires-node-js-creator-s-startup-that-copied-its-serverless-playbook-fmrzpepzw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator’s startup that copied its serverless playbook","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-acquires-node-js-creator-s-startup-that-copied-its-serverless-playbook-fmrzpepzw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-acquires-node-js-creator-s-startup-that-copied-its-serverless-playbook-fmrzpepzw"},"datePublished":"2026-10-09T18:59:55.288Z","dateModified":"2026-10-10T16:26:36.539Z","description":"Cloudflare is acquiring the team behind Deno, the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. 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