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Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs

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Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are. Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there? Newt: Why do they tell little kids that? Ripley: Most of the time it's true. --- But yes, I do believe this has a strong, serverless future.

Downloading a 50MB WASM blob to run an emulator to boot a Linux kernel and then start an HTTP server to handle a single request is utter madness, which is probably why this will become popular to do.

This will probably be a minor component of the Qeng Ho's timekeeping system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Inters...

Re: Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs

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If this performs, and it is a big if, it can make life a lot easier for people with stateful services. You just push the service back to the browers and you are done. It can be a lot cheaper and lot faster, and also reduce complexity of making a stateful service scalable and reliable.

And all the users have to download a 200MB web page every time they use your service...

Can the download be cached in the browser so that subsequent web page visits don't download the same initial 200MB blob? That's better at least.
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