5x faster Edge Functions: How we replaced v8 isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs
- About a billion Edge Functions run on Netlify every day — Sunweb personalizing pages, Loto-Québec routing traffic on a cookie check, and hundreds of thousands of other sites doing everything from personalization to routing to auth.
- All of it runs on a full JavaScript runtime that scales with our customers’ traffic.
- This poses a significant technical challenge, as we strive to make the latency as low as possible.
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- About a billion Edge Functions run on Netlify every day — Sunweb personalizing pages, Loto-Québec routing traffic on a cookie check, and hundreds of thousands of other sites doing everything from personalization to routing to auth.
- All of it runs on a full JavaScript runtime that scales with our customers’ traffic.
- This poses a significant technical challenge, as we strive to make the latency as low as possible.
Sources: Netlify