[HN Gopher] Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant ser...
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Show HN: Blueboat is an all-in-one, multi-tenant serverless
JavaScript runtime
Author : losfair
Score : 64 points
Date : 2022-07-26 16:33 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blueboat.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (blueboat.io)
| josephscott wrote:
| This sounds quite a bit like Cloudflare Workers, and they have a
| comparison page -
| https://github.com/losfair/blueboat/wiki/Comparison-with-Clo....
| rozenmd wrote:
| Comparison looks inaccurate, judging by
| https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-web...
| kentonv wrote:
| 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.)
| js4ever wrote:
| Any progress on open sourcing it? I can see the
| announcement was done in may
| kentonv wrote:
| Just posted an update, actually: https://twitter.com/Kent
| onVarda/status/1552052028595208197
| codetrotter wrote:
| What language(s) is Cloudflare Workers written in?
| kentonv wrote:
| C++
|
| (Sorry. Rust wasn't ready yet when we started.)
| shekhar101 wrote:
| 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.
| beebeepka wrote:
| Tailwind improves design now?
| jeremycarter wrote:
| Some people are funny hey.
| system2 wrote:
| I want to punch a drywall each time when I read "serverless".
| [deleted]
| e-clinton wrote:
| I felt the same with "big data" 5 years ago
| [deleted]
| gabereiser wrote:
| 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.
| kasperl wrote:
| 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.
| gabereiser wrote:
| I didn't see that until after. Sad, v8 is a massive library.
| kasperl wrote:
| When we wrote the initial version of V8, it was reasonably
| small :)
| upupandup wrote:
| I don't understand how its offering differs from existing cloud
| offerings from AWS, Cloudflare and Netlify
| wmf wrote:
| This is open source so you can compete with AWS, Cloudflare,
| and Netlify.
| JLCarveth wrote:
| I am definitely not an expert, but aren't there plenty of
| Javascript runtimes already? What does this do differently?
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| moralestapia wrote:
| This is great stuff, I would definitely be trying it out. If the
| owner is here, can I get beta access to MagicBoat?
| spankalee wrote:
| I'd love to see a multi-tenant, low cold-start, runtime like
| this, but with no additional JS APIs for databases, pub-sub, etc.
| I'd want to provide any I/O or storage myself via built-in
| modules.
| [deleted]
| syrusakbary wrote:
| Congrats on the launch, Heyang! Excited for you and the awesome
| work on Blueboat/Magicboat
| vorpalhex wrote:
| Neat. This looks like a good lightweight solution for your own
| lambda/edge worker clone. Built in multi-tenant is a nice touch.
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