Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browser execution engines

Re:Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browse... by Sonata on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:21AM (#22074015)

This sounds similar to how Cloudflare Workers work - using the V8 isolate technology built for Chrome to provide secure isolation of backend processes without the overhead of VMs or even containers.

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Re:Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browse... by jgrahamc on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:41AM (#22074085)

Yes. This is something like Cloudflare Workers (except we built a deep embedding of V8 rather than relying on the browser infrastructure).

https://workers.cloudflare.com/

Plus we have a distributed KV store to go with the code execution environment.

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Re:Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browse... by richardyoung00 on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:55AM (#22074177)

Our main reason for relying on the full browser is to not be tied to a specific browser engine, and to be able to benefit from browser security updates really easily, but there are obviously some challenges to this approach.

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Re:Browser Functions: A serverless platform using Web Browse... by jgrahamc on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:12AM (#22074284)

Makes sense. Certainly not dissing your approach!

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