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"Nobody is deploying large-scale services on top of what would be essentially the CGI model." Yes, they are. That's basically the Cloudflare workers model (whi
by ridruejo 3y ago
"Nobody is deploying large-scale services on top of what would be essentially the CGI model." Yes, they are. That's basically the Cloudflare workers model (which certainly qualifies as large-scale) and many other V8/Wasm based serverless solutions
- jmillikin 3y agoThe article is not describing the Cloudflare approach (v8 isolates) -- note the graph of startup times. Their "wasmedge" line takes 20 seconds to start 1500 instances, or about 13 milliseconds per instance. Cloudflare's blog post at https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containers/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe... contains a graph in which requests are handled in 200 microseconds, orders of magnitude faster.
- ridruejo 3y agoSame applies to Wasm. See Fastly equivalent of 35 microseconds https://www.fastly.com/edge-cloud-network/serverless#:~:text=With%20a%2035.4%20microsecond%20startup,fast%2C%20always%2Don%20computing https://www.fastly.com/edge-cloud-network/serverless#:~:text....