WASM will replace containers

Re:WASM will replace containers by konaraddi on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:15PM (#43021821)

Cloudflare, Fastly, and Amex use WASM in their FaaS implementations

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Re:WASM will replace containers by andrew_rfc on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:05AM (#43022084)

Cloudflare actually uses workerd which is a V8 isolate (which does support WASM with a lot of caveats.)

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Re:WASM will replace containers by yencabulator on Thursday February 13, 2025 @12:01PM (#43038230)

And you can tell it's really always Javascript with the ability to call into WASM. WASM on Cloudflare Workers is clearly a second class citizen.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by verdverm on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:57PM (#43022038)

There are a lot of package compatibility issues, not everyone has migrated or will migrate away from things like fs access

I'm going through this now, giving a full Cloudflare tech stack a shot, but I'm nearing a limit before I just go back to containers

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Re:WASM will replace containers by danpalmer on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:31PM (#43021915)

Yeah and that's where it makes a lot of sense. Less sense is replacing containers where you're using much more of the stack. FaaS hasn't replaced VMs, Kubernetes, Containers, etc, so it seems unlikely that WASM would for similar reasons.

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Re:WASM will replace containers by andrethegiant on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:43AM (#43022562)

Amex?

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Re:WASM will replace containers by konaraddi on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:49AM (#43026532)

Internally yeah https://thenewstack.io/amexs-faas-uses-webassembly-instead-o...

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