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Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
submitted 2 weeks ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/python@programming.dev
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[-] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

It didn't took long, the second word in the article (besides titles) is "Ai".

[-] Doccool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Doccool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks 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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