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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates? by csomar on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:59PM (#31762332)
> Containers _are_ a mechanism to increase to compute granularity. Some of our workloads were having trouble scaling to 128 cores, and by using containers, we can have more of them running with fewer cpu's.

As opposed to having VMs? Otherwise, I don't see how containers can increase granularity.

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Re:Ask HN: Pros and cons of V8 isolates? by ec109685 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:36PM (#31792514)
As opposed to the original comment that says they aren’t useful for increasing granularity.
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