[ksec]

Wouldn't it be very memory inefficient? A browser "tab" isn't exactly a small amount of resource. And I remember there were quite a few problems with headless browser not being perfect ( Although I think that was quite a while ago so things might have improved )

However I do love the idea of Browser Function! It has been a long time since I have been excited with any Web Development tech. So I just need some time to sink in my excitement.

[richardyoung00]

Chrome seems to handle memory quite well in headless mode at any rate. The memory footprint isn't tiny, but it seems a fair bit smaller than the container based approaches used by other serverless systems.

[throwGuardian]

Isn't this still wrapped in a container. I would assume a commercial deployment would need this isolation - after all chrome allows toggling feature flags, which could bleed across instances if not containerized.

The big benefit to this approach is the availability of WebApis in a Faas environment.

[richardyoung00]

I don't think you need the extra layer of isolation. Browser tabs are isolated pretty well if they are running different sites. Chrome's spectre mitigations will also help to isolate functions from one another https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-w...