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This is technically web, but not in the way you might think. We (Cloudflare) are working on providing WASM support in our Workers [1] product that lets you run code in our 155 data centers around the world.

WASM is great because we can run it in V8 isolates which are much lighter weight than containers or full VMs.

[1] https://cloudflareworkers.com



What are the security implications here?

i.e. the Chrome team, post-Spectre, are assuming that any value in a process' memory is readable by any code executing within that process.


V8's developer guide[1] recommends running un-trusted code in separate processes. So each worker job would need to fork.

[1] https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Untrusted-code-mitigations#san...


That’s awesome! Much closer to what I think of as "serverless".


Thanks for sharing, this looks very exciting! Bring on more docs and examples!!




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