Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by losfair » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 4:33 PM UTC

Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime
blueboat.io

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by gabereiser » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

This is really neat. I'm a little sad that it requires rewriting of your js app to make it work with it but still. I'm going to tinker with this for sure.

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by kasperl » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #2

This is really neat. I'm a little sad that it requires rewriting of your js app to make it work with it but still. I'm going to tinker with this for sure.

No V8? The website explicitly says that Blueboat combines Google's state-of-the-art V8 JavaScript engine, process-level snapshots, and Rust to speed up everything from cold start to runtime performance.

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by josephscott » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

This sounds quite a bit like Cloudflare Workers, and they have a comparison page - https://github.com/losfair/blueboat/wiki/Comparison-with-Clo....

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by shekhar101 » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:24 PM UTC

Sort of related - the website design is beautiful. So clean and to the point. I checked the source and it's Tailwind :) Very well executed and a great inspiration me to look into source code for my own designs.

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by syrusakbary » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:36 PM UTC

Congrats on the launch, Heyang! Excited for you and the awesome work on Blueboat/Magicboat

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by rozenmd » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:42 PM UTC

josephscott wrote: post #4

This sounds quite a bit like Cloudflare Workers, and they have a comparison page - https://github.com/losfair/blueboat/wiki/Comparison-with-Clo... .

Comparison looks inaccurate, judging by https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-web...

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by JLCarveth » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

I am definitely not an expert, but aren't there plenty of Javascript runtimes already? What does this do differently?

Re: Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless JavaScript runtime

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:50 PM UTC

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Post by kentonv » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 6:55 PM UTC

rozenmd wrote: post #7

josephscott wrote: post #4

This sounds quite a bit like Cloudflare Workers, and they have a comparison page - https://github.com/losfair/blueboat/wiki/Comparison-with-Clo... .

Comparison looks inaccurate, judging by https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-web...

I think the comparison is just old, it used to be accurate.

- Cloudflare Workers now supports WebSocket.

- Cloudflare Workers now supports strongly-consistent storage / ACID transactions with Durable Objects.

- Cloudflare Workers is becoming open source, but not there yet (I am refactoring the code for this as we speak): https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Cloudflare Workers.)