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Cloudflare, Fastly, and Amex use WASM in their FaaS implementations
by konaraddi 2y ago
Cloudflare, Fastly, and Amex use WASM in their FaaS implementations
- danpalmer 2y agoYeah and that's where it makes a lot of sense. Less sense is replacing containers where you're using much more of the stack. FaaS hasn't replaced VMs, Kubernetes, Containers, etc, so it seems unlikely that WASM would for similar reasons.
- verdverm 2y agoThere are a lot of package compatibility issues, not everyone has migrated or will migrate away from things like fs access I'm going through this now, giving a full Cloudflare tech stack a shot, but I'm nearing a limit before I just go back to containers
- andrew_rfc 2y agoCloudflare actually uses workerd which is a V8 isolate (which does support WASM with a lot of caveats.)
- yencabulator 2y agoAnd you can tell it's really always Javascript with the ability to call into WASM. WASM on Cloudflare Workers is clearly a second class citizen.
- andrethegiant 2y agoAmex?
- konaraddi 2y agoInternally yeah https://thenewstack.io/amexs-faas-uses-webassembly-instead-of-containers/ https://thenewstack.io/amexs-faas-uses-webassembly-instead-o...