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by ngz00 2994 days ago
Very cool to see this catching on, similar to the Edge features rolling out of Cloudflare and Fastly. I’ve been doing similar things with Nginx + LUA, and I’m curious about the performance of your V8 runtime. Also, where are y’all located? I’m looking for a change and this is a domain I’m highly interested in.
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mrkurt 2994 days ago
We actually started experimenting with nginx + Lua way at the beginning. It was a great way to build a poc.

v8 is fast, surprisingly so. In an http request/response cycle you can write and awful lot of JavaScript logic in v8 without adding perceptible latency.

We have a small office in Chicago, but are mostly distributed. :)

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zng00 2994 days ago
I just watched your presentation at NWCJS. I was aware that Node was just the ES api implementations on top of v8 and libuv, but your presentation elucidated the exact mechanisms behind the Fly runtime and actually the Node runtime as well.

Seems like y'all are in a good position to expand the native bindings and add some of the more experimental ES proposals faster than Node. Got any details on the Fly roadmap?

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