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Discussion on: ELI5: v8 Isolates and Contexts

 
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aafrey

No particular use-case at the moment, but I was reading more about the Cloudflare Worker runtime which explains how they are using v8 Isolates to create sandboxed serverless workers. Some details here: blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-per...

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@Zee i found some additional examples in NodeJS source, using Isolates in the experimental Workers API: github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master...

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aafrey

some more details provided by a member of the v8 team, Yang Guo.

twitter.com/hashseed/status/106875...

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Zee

Nice, that feels like it clears things up a bit more!