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They're not easily comparable (I tried using Cloudflare Workers before going back to AWS). Lambda@Edge runs Node or Python. Cloudflare Workers runs V8 with "wor
by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
They're not easily comparable (I tried using Cloudflare Workers before going back to AWS). Lambda@Edge runs Node or Python. Cloudflare Workers runs V8 with "worker isolates" which has a few more caveats, an imperfect but improving dev experience, and doesn't work with a lot of npm packages.
- eins1234 6y agoWhat would be really useful for my use case (running browser tests on a schedule) is if Cloudflare workers actually supported running full headless chromium automation in addition to just V8 isolates. Right now I'm using puppeteer/playwright + Lambda, but would love to have more options.
- Normal_gaussian 6y agoHeadless browser tests seem to be quite far away from the problems cloudflare workers are trying to solve. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits Workers aren't the same as lambdas, they are a super slim JS environments. At 50ms max runtime most browsers won't even start, let alone fetch and process a page.
- ignoramous 6y agoCloudWatch Synthetics may fit your usecase? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Synthetics_Canaries.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori... Then there are more specialized browser-testing providers like LambdaTest.com and BrowserStack.com
- chrisweekly 6y agoand the venerable WPT (private instances, not the free public one at webpagetest.org)
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- wdb 6y agoI wished Google Cloud supported something similar Lambda@edge but I think my only alternative is Cloudflare Workers at the moment.