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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by moogly on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:45PM (#19723800)
I mean, sure, if you have tens of internal users maybe (but then it could be argued that it could just as well be deployed as a desktop app -- I could buy the deployment method as an argument, mind you). But thousands? Call me sceptical. It just makes me think of `asp:UpdatePanel` all over again.
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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by manigandham on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:08AM (#19726254)
Are you referring to the session state and websockets connections? Both scale horizontally with minimal effort, I don't see the problem.

Asp:UpdatePanel was great for it's time, and no different than doing an XHR request now and replacing the contents of a div with the response. You can still get basically the same effect with libraries like Turbolinks which is what Github does.

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