Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates?
by QuiiBz on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:31PM
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For now, each process runs many isolates - but a single server run many processes. Cloudflare have implemented a similar mechanism [1]:
> Workers are distributed among cordons by assigning each worker a level of trust and separating low-trusted workers from those we trust more highly. As one example of this in operation: a customer who signs up for our free plan will not be scheduled in the same process as an enterprise customer. This provides some defense-in-depth in the case a zero-day security vulnerability is found in V8.
> Workers are distributed among cordons by assigning each worker a level of trust and separating low-trusted workers from those we trust more highly. As one example of this in operation: a customer who signs up for our free plan will not be scheduled in the same process as an enterprise customer. This provides some defense-in-depth in the case a zero-day security vulnerability is found in V8.
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...