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WASM Is the New CGI
I read a wonderful twitter thead about CGI and the birth of the web and this triggered a thought I've been kicking around. > Wasm is the new CGI And to be cle...
HTTP based database APIs (see Azure or DynamoDB) are popular in the serverless application model as they tolerate massive numbers of connections and are easier to scale up and down with functions than traditional RDBMs solutions. Web Assembly LogoAdditionally since V8 based serverless environments (like Node.js, Cloudflare Workers and Deno) are common, we already have some very mature Wasm execution capabilities thanks to the work in the browser. A process with two threads of execution, running on one processor from Wikipedia Just in Time (JIT) compilation is not possible as dynamic Wasm code generation is not allowed for security reasons.
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