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dsign 3 hours ago [-]
This is the tech at Cloudflare of course, but I swear that my first interpretation of the title was "We have replaced all our python coders with AI and they (the coders) are out and generally available" :-)
FartyMcFarter 39 minutes ago [-]
Yep - I immediately thought this was going to be some "Python SWE on the cloud for hire" service.
Joeboy 3 hours ago [-]
Yeah I initially read it as a headline about the grim state of the software dev jobs market.
spicypixel 2 hours ago [-]
One day it’ll be similarly beautifully trivial to use go too. I hope.
vira28 19 minutes ago [-]
Agree. Until then I will wait.
Still a welcome move that they finally added support from Python.
100% agree. Hiring Hood a couple years ago was great money spent on that project (not that they shouldn't throw more cash at it =) )
stefan_lec 3 hours ago [-]
How do these perform for cold-starts? I remember one of the disadvantages of using web assembly for Workers was more spin-up time, but maybe they figured out a way around that.
There is still more to do here and it’s what we will be focusing on next.
aeyes 58 minutes ago [-]
The cold start numbers on that blog post show that its faster than AWS Lambda but your linked benchmark page [1] shows that Lambda is not only much faster but also much more consistent.
In many cases, the cold-start time might not be visible to users. E.g. if you serve your static content from a CDN, maybe you have stale content in local storage you can show while fetching updated data. If it all happens on a sub-100ms timescale, it should feel quite instant?
karmakaze 1 hours ago [-]
They should support Mojo which might be a great fit for edge compute.
victorbjorklund 1 hours ago [-]
Elixir next ;) with clustering across workers (kind of kidding because elixir probably does not make sense for CF workers)
Still a welcome move that they finally added support from Python.
There is still more to do here and it’s what we will be focusing on next.
[1] https://cold.picheta.me/#bare
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825