Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by ijpsud on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:26PM
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According to this[0] blog post Lambda@Edge has significantly longer latency (due in part to a smaller number of locations). Cloudflare also uses V8 isolates instead of whole VMs, so much lower overhead. Disadvantage is that you can only run JavaScript and WASM.
[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloud-computing-without-containe...