Cygnus – A fast, lightweight self-hostable serverless runtime and PaaS

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Cygnus – A fast, lightweight self-hostable serverless runtime and PaaS is a business in show hn launch.

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I built Cygnus because of a long standing frustration with the compromises needed to be made when choosing a deployment option for web applications.The ecosystem is fragmented into a few distinct camps, each sacrificing user experience or runtime compatibility to balance isolation, startup latency, and their own profit margins.Docker: Heavier and slower because it has to supervise more than web apps. Paying overhead you don't need. MicroVM's: Good isolation, but huge maintenance surface area and substantial overhead. Great for untrusted code, overkill for your own apps. Workerd: Tries to dance around hardware isolation by enforcing an in-process V8 isolate model. Neutered runtime to prevent

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Website: cygnus.run