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Cloudflare Workers have their own additional compelling value prop in operating on the edge. But I think something like this could offer a lot of value for a di
by mnutt 5y ago
Cloudflare Workers have their own additional compelling value prop in operating on the edge. But I think something like this could offer a lot of value for a different use case:
In building complex SaaS apps, there's usually a constant flow of customer requests for custom features. Scripting, if managed very carefully [0], can provide an outlet for that and also allow people to glue together different features. AWS pushes people towards Lambda for customizing/gluing different AWS services.
A product could use AWS Lambda for its own scripting/glue, but that may end up being a little bit too free-form and depending on the use case Lambda cold start times may be unacceptable. So something like Blueboat could eventually be useful for running untrusted code to power customization of SaaS apps. This is especially the case if your service isn't marketed toward developers who can easily run their own Lambdas.
[0] Opening your app to scripting automatically exposes a huge API surface area which you'll likely have to support for a long time.