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5x faster Edge Functions: How we replaced v8 isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs

About a billion Edge Functions run on Netlify every day — Sunweb personalizing pages, LotoQuébec routing traffic on a cookie check, and hundreds of thousands of other sites doing everything from personalization to routing to auth. All of it runs on a full JavaScript runtime that scales with our customers’ traffic.

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