OpenWorkers
Infrastructure
self-hosted serverless runtime
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15 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 12 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 7 for, 7 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Architecture is technically excellent and a good product idea
From 1 comment
Technically, and architecturally this is excellent. It’s also an excellent product idea. And I’m particularly a fan of the big-ass-vendor-inversion-model where instead of the big…
keepamovin on HN
Good escape hatch from Cloudflare lock-in
From 2 comments
Cool. I always liked CF workers but haven’t shipped anything serious with it due to not wanting vendor lock-in. This is perfect for knowing you always got a escape hatch.
victorbjorklund on HNGood to see this! Cloudflare's cool, but those locked-in things (KV, D1, etc.) always made it hard to switch. Offering open-source alternatives is always good, but maintainign…
orliesaurus on HN
Objections
Self-hosting undercuts the edge computing benefit of many points of presence
From 2 comments
> It brings the power of edge computing to your own infrastructure. I like the idea of self-hosting, but it seems fairly strongly opposed to the concept of edge computing. The…
bob1029 on HNI am always interested in seeing alternatives in the edge compute space but self hosting does not make sense to me. The benefit of edge is the availability close to customers.…
brainless on HN
Sandbox security guarantees are unproven for untrusted code
From 1 comment
The problem with sandboxing solutions is that they have to provide very solid guarantees that code can't escape the sandbox, which is really difficult to do. Any time I'm…
simonw on HN
Unclear why it beats running Node or Deno in a container
From 2 comments
Why would I want this over just sticking Node / Deno / Bun in a Docker container?
theknarf on HNCool project, but I never found the cloudflare DX desirable compared to self hosted alternatives. A plain old node server in a docker container was much easier to manage, use and…
strangescript on HN
Requests
Kubernetes deployment guide
From 1 comment
Could you add a kubernetes deployment quick-start? Just a simple deployment.yaml is enough.
kachapopopow on HN
GitHub auto-deploy on push
From 1 comment
This is very nice! Do you plan to hook this up to GitHub, so that a push of worker code (and maybe a yaml describing the environment & resources) will result in a redeploy?
st3fan on HN
Publish a roadmap of unimplemented features
From 1 comment
Perhaps it might be helpful to some to also lay out the things that don't work today (or eg roadmap of what's being worked on that doesn't currently work?). Anyway, looks very…
indigodaddy on HN
Add a license
From 1 comment
I don't see a single license mentioned anywhere?
yencabulator on HN
Questions
How does it differ from workerd?
From 1 comment
Cool project, great work! Forgive the uninformed questions, but given that `workerd` (https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) is "open-source" (in terms of the runtime itself,…
tbrockman on HN
Does it use the actual Cloudflare runtime?
From 1 comment
Does this actually use the cloudflare worker runtime or is this just a way to run code in v8 isolates?
vmg12 on HN
What is the failure model when user code misbehaves?
From 1 comment
Nice project. One thing Cloudflare Workers gets right is strong execution isolation. When self-hosting, what’s the failure model if user code misbehaves? Is there any…
IntelliAvatar on HN
Does it need Node.js?
From 1 comment
I've decided to ditch CF because Wrangler is deployed via NPM and I cannot bear NodeJS and Microsoft NPM anymore. I get the impression this can't be run without NodeJS right now?
willtemperley on HN
Alternatives named
Cloudflare Workers
From 2 comments
Cool project, great work! Forgive the uninformed questions, but given that `workerd` (https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) is "open-source" (in terms of the runtime itself,…
tbrockman on HNProbably worth pointing out that the Cloudflare Workers runtime is already open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
rozenmd on HN
workerd
From 2 comments
Cool project, great work! Forgive the uninformed questions, but given that `workerd` (https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) is "open-source" (in terms of the runtime itself,…
tbrockman on HNProbably worth pointing out that the Cloudflare Workers runtime is already open source: https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd
rozenmd on HN
Deno
From 1 comment
Any reason to abandon Deno? edit: if the idea was to have compatibility with cloudflare workers, workers can run deno https://docs.deno.com/examples/cloudflare_workers_tutorial/
nextaccountic on HN
OpenFaaS
From 1 comment
Interesting option to consider next to openfaas
kristianpaul on HN
Rivet actors
From 1 comment
This is similar to what rivet (1) does, perhaps focusing more on stateless than rivet does (1) https://www.rivet.dev/docs/actors/
dangoodmanUT on HN