| > Why don't you respond to their argument I did > But Wasmer Edge does not run close to most customers and does not run on their browser. It does run in the browser, that is what https://wasmer.sh uses to launch things published via the `wasmer publish` command. There are more plans to integrate these closer together into a hybrid system in the future with converged networking and transparent offloading work to servers, needs more work but its for sure possible with this foundation. > I think Edge is something where a limited pilot makes no sense. One does not just hit a button and servers appear everywhere in the world at once for free, all CDN's do the same thing, they run in racks of servwrs and expand their POP's based off real data and not just guess work. For instance, apparently Japan has a massive interest in WASIX, so perhaps the next POP should go there. Its also worth mentioning that if Wasmer Edge had been built on top of someone elses Edge (as others have done) then they would never be able to offer the cheap pricing. > I think Edge is something where a limited pilot makes no sense. It is a good point you make here about perception versus alpha relaity but with the architecture of the design and the huge amount of interest coming from the community the locations will expand quickly so it will be a growing pain of history fairly quickly. > I don't see how wasm will significantly help you get more servers closer to users than existing companies in this space No other company I am aware of are trying to build a distributed computer that lets developers write a program that runs in a hybrid setup of running in the literal browser of the user and connected to high performance compute in data centres. Honestly this is the bit that really excites me, imagine a program that runs in the browser but has real threads that also run in a data center. Exciting times. |