The container model assumes a relatively stable set of long-running processes on a machine you control. That assumption holds in a data center. It breaks at the edge.
At the edge you want to pack thousands of tenants onto modest hardware, spin each one up only when a request arrives, and tear it down immediately after. Containers, with their per-instance OS overhead and slow cold starts, are the wrong granularity for that.
Isolates, the same primitive that lets a browser run untrusted code from many origins safely, give you memory isolation with near-zero startup cost. A function can begin executing in less time than a TCP handshake.
CloudX runs on an isolate-based runtime precisely because the edge demands density and instant starts that containers cannot provide.
Latency is a feature you can ship.
Move your compute to the edge and give every user a local experience.
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