Cloudflare D1 + Drizzle ORM: SQLite at the Edge Without the Pain

SQLite at the edge sounds like a joke until you see the query latency numbers. Cloudflare D1 puts a SQLite database inside your Worker — queries that used to cross a continent now resolve in single-digit milliseconds. But D1's raw API is verbose. Drizzle ORM fixes that with a thin, type-safe layer that generates correct SQL without the overhead of Prisma's query engine. Here's how to wire them together for a production app. Why D1 + Drizzle D1 advantages: Read replicas in every Cloudflare region