| > will probably be the future of computing I think you're right, but I think the key part of the tech is economic: their ability to deploy hundreds or thousands of instances safely shared by large numbers of replicated sites and applications belonging to different site owners. Individual site owners can't afford that level of infrastructure for each site separately. Actually deploying it isn't that difficult, it's just expensive and unjustifiable. (I nearly started a business doing what Cloudflare Workers is doing now, about 10 years ago (and not with JS/Node), so I know a fair bit about building out this sort of distributed edge system, including the WebSockets and anycast part. But life took a turn and IPv4 blocks for anycast were starting to look a bit beyond what I could justify for the development, even back then. In retrospect it would have been a good thing to build.) > That is, if the decentralized web fails to take off in the next 5 years. You have given me an idea :-) (For a side project I'm working on zero-knowledge proofs of execution, which allows nodes to execute code on behalf of other nodes without the latter having to trust the former. Performance is far too slow to run things like websites at the moment, but there are many tricks for speeding it up, including hardware acceleration.) |