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Marcus S. Abildskov's avatar

I'm wondering why they're not using unikernels. Unikernels have single digit millisecond startups and are not limited to isolates.

Using stateful scale-to-zero you can preserve the JIT compilation cache of v8.

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Shivang Sarawagi's avatar

I'll delve into this and possibly write a post on it.

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Saeed Zarinfam's avatar

Thanks, you made my week, the article has many in-depth details.

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Shivang Sarawagi's avatar

I am glad you like it :)

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Kiran Mantha's avatar

Probably with the advent of compiling Java and .net code as wasm may address a wide range of audience. But developers should be aware of libraries that support wasm

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Shivang Sarawagi's avatar

Right! Many businesses are experimenting with WebAssembly on the side. However, its adoption is limited by the lack of enough tooling and platform support for WASM.

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Ahmad Awais's avatar

Superb piece. They have been building a container platform which I have been beta testing.

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