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Yes, DOs have a similar approach. Plane is sort of like DOs but using containers instead of V8 isolates, allowing you to run code that couldn’t run in the browser (either for cpu/memory needs, or because it just won’t compile to JS/wasm).


Hn yes, that makes sense. If I remember correctly, CF liked isolates because they have a superb cold start time. How does Plane do there?


On the order of a few seconds, which is certainly slower than isolates, but fast enough to e.g. spin up a Jupyter backend in a reasonable amount of time. We're playing around with some ideas to make it even faster, like snapshotting.


Makes sense. Well, this feels like the future, so the more innovation and competition the better! Glad you're here.




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