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Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ELI5 why is this better than something like ECS or a Lambda?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Faster starts, more flexible deployments (on prem, on client, in cloud (aws/azure/gcp/etc)).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay, I guess I must be missing something cause somehow I'm not understanding how it works

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    So wasm is just binary target for compliation that runs on a wasm runtime. This could be a service on a server or a brower.

    And since its just executing code the start up time is faster than starting up a whole OS (like co tainers almost do). It also is a more universal target than aws lamda.

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