function-as-a-service

WebAssembly vs native code

WebAssembly aims to drastically improve your application performance, safety, and developer productivity. It replaces native code with a managed container and finely grained security model. Why do we program in native code in 2020? In the past several years, CPU speed has pretty much stopped improving. At the same time, AI, big data, and blockchain have all create huge demands for more computing power. So far, the solution has been more and more native code in our software.…

开发者活动：用 Rust 写 Serverless 函数

了解如何在 Rust 中创建用于媒体处理、机器学习和 AI 的高性能 serverless 函数。完成这个挑战，即可获得丰厚奖品！终极大奖 最新款的 Mac mini 等你来拿。 #1 用 Rust 写一个 serverless function 首…

🚀 WebAssembly is the perfect runtime for server-side (or serverless) applications

In a recent paper on Science, MIT professor Leiserson et al. noted that, as Moore's Law stalled, “practically all industries will face challenges to their productivity”. But, while semiconductor miniaturization hits the quantum limit, the good news is that “there’s plenty of room at the top”. The drivers for growth will be from more efficient software, new algorithms, and specialized hardware. The paper demonstrated that machine learning tasks can run 60,000x times faster when we replace Python with native code and specialized hardware.…