Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion
Jul 21, 2023
Jake Champion, a staff software engineer at Fastly and maintainer of Polyfill.io, shares insights into edge computing and browser compatibility. He explains the difference between WASM and WASY, and addresses the innovative capabilities of Fastly's Compute@Edge platform. Champion discusses the significance of Polyfill.io, managing over a billion requests daily, and highlights the integration of Node APIs for more compatibility. He also touches on advancements in WebAssembly and the practical challenges of IoT, offering a glimpse into the rapidly evolving web development landscape.
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Polyfill.io's Scale
- Polyfill.io, a service for serving polyfills, handles over a billion requests daily.
- It's been running for over a decade and is sponsored by Fastly.
Fastly Compute@Edge Architecture
- Fastly's Compute@Edge platform runs WebAssembly applications at the edge.
- It compiles both the application and SpiderMonkey (Firefox’s JS engine) to WASM for speed and security.
WASM Benefits
- WASM offers security benefits for running untrusted code, like customer applications.
- It also enables fast startup times (50 microseconds) and support for multiple languages.