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Page: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/placement/

The page contains two statements that appear to contradict the example in the "Multiple Workers" section.

The statements

Under both the Smart Placement and Placement sections, the page says (twice, verbatim):

Placement only affects the execution of fetch event handlers. It does not affect RPC methods or named entrypoints.

Workers without a fetch event handler are ignored by placement.

The example that contradicts them

The "Multiple Workers" section recommends splitting an app into an auth-worker (no placement) and an app-worker (placed near the database, communicating via Service Binding RPC). The app-worker is a WorkerEntrypoint whose only fetch() handler is a stub returning 404:

export default class AppWorker extends WorkerEntrypoint {
  async fetch() {
    return new Response(null, { status: 404 });
  }

  // Each method runs near your database - multiple queries stay fast
  async getUser(userId: string) { /* ... */ }
  async getUserListings(userId: string) { /* ... */ }
}

The comment in the code asserts // Each method runs near your database, and the paragraph below the example states:

Authenticated requests are forwarded via RPC to app-worker, which runs near your database for fast queries.

This directly contradicts "Placement … does not affect RPC methods or named entrypoints."

What's unclear

It's not possible from the page alone to tell which is true:

1. Does placement affect where RPC methods execute when the entrypoint is invoked via Service Binding? The example implies yes; the disclaimer says no.
2. What is the role of the stub fetch() in the example? Is it required only so the Smart Placement engine doesn't ignore the Worker (per "Workers without a fetch event handler are ignored by placement"), while explicit region placement applies regardless? Or does the stub do nothing and the example is misleading?
3. Does the "does not affect RPC methods" sentence perhaps refer only to Smart Placement's decision input (i.e., the algorithm observes fetch traffic, not RPC traffic, when deciding where to place), and not to where RPC methods actually execute once a placement is set?

What changes are you suggesting?

Either:

• If RPC methods do run at the placed location: remove or rewrite the "does not affect RPC methods or named entrypoints" sentence, and explain that a (possibly stub) fetch() handler is required for the Worker to be considered by placement.
• If RPC methods do not run at the placed location: rewrite the "Multiple Workers" example, because as written it teaches a pattern that doesn't deliver the latency benefit it claims.

Either way, please clarify the role of the stub fetch() handler in the recommended pattern.

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