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Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

CHAPTER

The Benefits of WebAssembly

WebAssembly is a very minimal and secure language. It simplifies the security that we have to put into place, but for running your code. You can also make it be really fast to spin up WebAssembly applications as well. So it takes us 50 microseconds to spin up a customer's WebAssembly application. There's no like cold boot or like cold start or hot start or warming up. And we don't reuse instances either, which is something that you'll see on like the other platforms or like Lambda.

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