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(shameless, but possibly helpful plug) You can run CF worker code locally, write tests, etc using our edge app runtime: https://github.com/superfly/fly

Hi! I'm from fly.io! You can write JavaScript that runs just fine on both fly.io and Cloud Flare workers. We both target the in browser Service Worker API. We actually have a few users that deploy the same code to us + Cloud Flare, and use our runtime for local testing + CI: https://github.com/superfly/fly

(shameless, but possibly helpful plug) We have a runtime that can be used similarly to Cloud Flare workers. You can even write JS that runs on both since we both target the browser's Service Worker API. You can run it locally, deploy it on our servers (free credit for the first $25 of usage), or if you're a little crazy you can even deploy it to your own servers: https://github.com/superfly/fly

This is what we do at fly.io: https://github.com/superfly/fly It's based on node.js right now. It's a bit clunky, but we have many success stories of customers running it locally, on their CI and deploying to infrastructure. Currently the open source version is not the same as the production version (due to the distributed nature of our platform.) We're working on fixing that very soon and going all-in open source.

> We need to stop demonizing restrictionless development. I'm not! I love permissive OSS licenses, I think they're great until they get abused. What I'm demonizing is overly powerful megacorps owning an unreasonable amount of the available "tech" revenue. This license from MongoDB is an unfortunate side effect of that. I don't think anyone there wanted a weirdly restrictive license, but I do think they want to build a healthy business on top of their work. And that's something I want them to be able to do as well. There's a big, big difference between companies in an oligopoly position and normal companies. Permissive OSS grew up in a world that wasn't a weird oligopoly for good reasons, but a lot has changed in the last 10 years and it's downright dangerous to license things permissively and try to build a business at the same time. Exam

fly.io | Full-Time | Remote Only | TypeScript Developer Fly is an open source platform for building CDNs and other “edge applications”. You might like working here if you're interested in internet infrastructure, care about low level JavaScript runtimes, and think you'd enjoy writing TypeScript or JavaScript full time. We're a small team of 6 with real revenue. We help companies build fast applications, and tell our families we're in an epic battle against the speed of light (it's true!). We're hiring a full time developer with salary + benefits to build edge applications for customers and improve our open source software. To apply: have a look at https://github.com/superfly/fly, then send an email to jobs@fly.io and tell us something you'd improve. We'll tell you about the sample project and schedule a video all to answer any questions y

I only found mention of v8-isolate when searching for it specifically. Coming up in only https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-performance-compariso... and a few comments on HN. I don't see any description of its use other than a summary of 'we use v8 isolates', which begs a /r/restofthefuckingowl. Even an interview with KV doesn't reveal much. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018... Isolate also doesn't do anything for sandboxing from what I can tell. Cloudflare quotes 'That said, we have added additional layers of our own sandboxing on top of V8.' I do not see any actual technical information on how they're using v8. v8 and by extension isolated-vm by itself does not cover things like fetch if we're talking JS. https://github.com/laverdet/isolated-vm/issues/63 This is an immediete killer as js browser features

fly.io | Full-Time | Remote Only | TypeScript Developer Fly is an open source platform for building CDNs and other “edge applications”. You might like working here if you're interested in internet infrastructure, care about low level JavaScript runtimes, and think you'd enjoy writing TypeScript / JavaScript full time. We're a small team of 6 with real revenue. We help companies build fast applications, and tell our families we're in an epic battle against the speed of light (it's true!). We're hiring a full time developer with salary + benefits to build edge applications for customers and improve our open source software. To apply: have a look at https://github.com/superfly/fly, then send an email to jobs@fly.io and tell us something you'd improve. We'll tell you about the sample project and schedule a video all to answer any questions yo

Shameless plug: we have an open source tool you can build stuff like this on. It'll run any logic you can implement in JavaScript, we have people doing things like "send traffic to backend with lowest latency" already, it'd be pretty easy to pull in some API data to pick based on cost. https://github.com/superfly/fly

Sure! You can even pick apart the code if you want: https://github.com/superfly/fly There's no warmup time. We spent some time with various OSS FaaS tools and that was pretty killer. When you deploy, we build a v8 snapshot of your code, then push it out to all the Edge Servers. It's already in memory and ready to rock when a request comes in — less than 1ms to get to your code for most apps. fly.cache does persist, although it will vary per region (that's a surprising thing we learned about CDNs, cache contents vary per region quite a lot). It's volatile so you shouldn't rely on it for durable data storage, but you also pay for what you use so we have a strong incentive to not evict cache data any more than you request. :) The global context _can_ be shared between requests but you can't really count on it. There's no guaranty that one re