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Adam Argyle
@nerdy.dev

i dont think it made it much faster, but I have put a lot more work into my cache strategies local dev is definitely faster, the vite upgrade is nice

Bart Veneman
@veneman.dev

'cold start' used to take a couple of seconds for me usually, now it's near-instant. Like there's a lot of latency gone, or something.

Adam Argyle
@nerdy.dev

that's true, the isolate cold boots could be between .5s and 3s, they seem consistently smaller now good call! i do think i'm in less global regions now though, but maybe you're closer to one of the new ones?

Adam Argyle
@nerdy.dev

Only regression so far is that the comments from Bluesky have stopped populating in bridgy fed, so they don’t show on my page

tombl
@tombl.dev

this is unfortunate, did they lower their limits in the move? I think they migrated from isolates to containers/VMs so that would check out

Mastro.{js,ts}
@mastrojs.bsky.social

Interesting! Is there anything publicly known about why they moved away from isolates? Seemed like that would give them better economics, and without they’re a hosting provider like any other?

tombl
@tombl.dev

They haven't published anything about "why we moved away from isolates", but they are happy to talk about the better Node compat, database support, and new CI/sandbox stuff that moving to VMs enables.

tombl
@tombl.dev

plus I think maintaining a whole second runtime for their cloud platform, and keeping it secure, just takes more engineering effort than they were willing to spend. unless you have Cloudflare's infra/scale/commitment I don't think building a platform like this on top of isolates is really viable.