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1. nchmy · 1790796980 · focus · HN ↗

   I'm having trouble understanding/believing this, given that Cloudflare Workers are also v8 isolates and run vastly faster than the 25-40ms that netlify says their isolates took...

   1. phickey · 1790797829 · focus · HN ↗

      from the article: "With our old infrastructure it went out over the internet, ran the edge function, and came back to us to pass on. With the new compute platform, the request is forwarded to a compute node within our network."

      As far as I know, Cloudflare Workers have always executed within Cloudflare's network, not gone out to the internet and executed elsewhere (which I read as being in a hyperscaler cloud).

      1. nchmy · 1790842077 · focus · HN ↗

         OK, so it's less about isoates vs firecracker than it is about them now doing it in-house...

         Perhaps the article says that, but the framing is all wrong

   2. irq-1 · 1790797910 · focus · HN ↗

      > In the past, requests went out to a hosted execution service. Today, they run on MicroVMs inside our own edge network

      The isolates were not being run at the edge.

      1. bobfunk · 1790800181 · focus · HN ↗

         They were running on the edge, and in the same datacenters but by another provider.

         1. ascorbic · 1790835577 · focus · HN ↗

            That provider being Deno

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