Sat
Infrastructure
wasm runtime server
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51points
20comments
#844of 2,533 in 2021
Top 34%of 2021 by points
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2 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Performance: 1 for, 1 against
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Interesting WebAssembly serverless direction
From 2 comments
Hi ospencer, cohix, nyahmacklindev, and jagger27: - Could you share some insights on why wasmtime and not wasm3 or wasmer in particular (other than the fact that the…
ignoramous on HNThe end goal is that Docker isn't needed at all, you could just run Sat on bare metal and you'd get all the nice sandboxing properties of Wasm. That said, the tooling in the…
cohix on HN
Objections
Hello world wasm module is large (1.73 MB)
From 2 comments
The hello world example in the repo is 1.73 MB edit: thanks for the replies below, I misinterpreted the use case for that wasm module.
hunterb123 on HNRight! I'll also just mention that this Wasm module isn't sent to the clients and run in the browser. It runs server-side. And for a bit of context, the hello world example below…
jagger27 on HN
Questions
Why Wasmtime over wasm3 or Wasmer
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Hi ospencer, cohix, nyahmacklindev, and jagger27: - Could you share some insights on why wasmtime and not wasm3 or wasmer in particular (other than the fact that the…
ignoramous on HNHello! > Could you share some insights on why wasmtime and not wasm3 or wasmer in particular The underlying architecture also supports Wasmer (there's a compiler flag to switch…
cohix on HN
What the local network mesh feature implies
From 1 comment
This appear to be using Wasmtime to run the WASM. The main point seems to be: > Sat has the ability to create a mesh with other instances using local network discovery and…
Zababa on HN
Difference from wasm-micro-runtime
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What's the difference behind this and https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime? I'm using wasm-micro-runtime at https://www.inngest.com to transform events on the…
tonyhb on HNSat is a pre-built server and a set of APIs wrapped around Wasmtime, it could theoretically use WAMR as well!
cohix on HN
Alternatives named
wasmCloud, Lunatic, Yew, AssemblyLift, Compute@Edge
From 1 comment
Hello! > Could you share some insights on why wasmtime and not wasm3 or wasmer in particular The underlying architecture also supports Wasmer (there's a compiler flag to switch…
cohix on HN
wasm-micro-runtime (WAMR)
From 1 comment
What's the difference behind this and https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime? I'm using wasm-micro-runtime at https://www.inngest.com to transform events on the…
tonyhb on HN
Cloudflare Workers and Deno Deploy
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Hi ospencer, cohix, nyahmacklindev, and jagger27: - Could you share some insights on why wasmtime and not wasm3 or wasmer in particular (other than the fact that the…
ignoramous on HNHi: Yes, we use WASM by the way of Deno-Deploy and Cloudflare Workers but for web & logging workloads. We do not have a specific need for WASM but it speed: It is faster than any…
ignoramous on HN