I'd love to see this platform open sourced - I absolutely love the idea of deploying functions this way, but because I'm working in university - I know we'll never use the hosted platform as-is.
I'd love to see this platform open sourced - I absolutely love the idea of deploying functions this way, but because I'm working in university - I know we'll never use the hosted platform as-is.
I would think open source variants might pop up (hopefully soon). It's not like ideas on their own can be copyrighted. Propriety online-file storage services like DropBox and Google Drive...
I would think open source variants might pop up (hopefully soon). It's not like ideas on their own can be copyrighted.
Propriety online-file storage services like DropBox and Google Drive eventually led to Own/NextCloud and I dare to say they surpassed the other services, especially with all the plugins they offer for related stuff.
I'm not sure it'd be feasible to open source this platform as a whole - from my reading it seems to depend (or at least significantly benefit) partially on the fact that it runs on the local CDN...
I'm not sure it'd be feasible to open source this platform as a whole - from my reading it seems to depend (or at least significantly benefit) partially on the fact that it runs on the local CDN points of presence rather than a central datacenter, which would be logistically very difficult to self-host unless you're an ISP.
The underlying Isolates interface is already an open part of V8, though, and there appears to be at least one library already out to make use of it. Assuming there aren't any major unforeseen flaws in the model, I'm sure we'll be seeing a few usable "lightweight isolate pseudo-vm" libraries in the next 6-12 months.
I wouldn't mind getting my hands just on the runtime to play around with it :) But yes, I'm also sure we'll see a lot of alternative projects with the same approach. Just thought it'd be curious...
I wouldn't mind getting my hands just on the runtime to play around with it :)
But yes, I'm also sure we'll see a lot of alternative projects with the same approach. Just thought it'd be curious to see the original version so to say.
I'd love to see this platform open sourced - I absolutely love the idea of deploying functions this way, but because I'm working in university - I know we'll never use the hosted platform as-is.
I would think open source variants might pop up (hopefully soon). It's not like ideas on their own can be copyrighted.
Propriety online-file storage services like DropBox and Google Drive eventually led to Own/NextCloud and I dare to say they surpassed the other services, especially with all the plugins they offer for related stuff.
Oh, they most definitely will! I was just wondering if CF folks would open source (parts of?) their platform. Would love to dive into that code.
I'm not sure it'd be feasible to open source this platform as a whole - from my reading it seems to depend (or at least significantly benefit) partially on the fact that it runs on the local CDN points of presence rather than a central datacenter, which would be logistically very difficult to self-host unless you're an ISP.
The underlying Isolates interface is already an open part of V8, though, and there appears to be at least one library already out to make use of it. Assuming there aren't any major unforeseen flaws in the model, I'm sure we'll be seeing a few usable "lightweight isolate pseudo-vm" libraries in the next 6-12 months.
I wouldn't mind getting my hands just on the runtime to play around with it :)
But yes, I'm also sure we'll see a lot of alternative projects with the same approach. Just thought it'd be curious to see the original version so to say.