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Dev tools · October 5, 2020

Second State Serverless FaaS

High-performance serverless functions for Rust & WebAssembly

Second State Serverless FaaS launched on October 5, 2020 with 92 votes, #466 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Second State FaaS is high-performance and supports the Rust language as a first class citizen. With WebAssembly on the server, it starts and runs much faster than VM or container-based alternatives. It excels in compute intensive media, data, and edge AI apps.

WebAssembly based Rust faaS

High-performance Function as a Service (FaaS) for Rust developers. Take advantage of Rust's performance, safety, and large ecosystem in your serverless applications! Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter on server-side WebAssembly, Rust programming, and serverless architecture to stay on top of industry trends. SSVM is a WebAssembly VM optimized for server-side apps. It supports WASI-like extensions for AI, media, web services, and blockchain. Use Tensorflow-based MobileNet models to classify objects in an input image. Use Tensorflow-based MTCNN models to detect faces in an input image, and return an image with all faces outlined in boxes. WebAssembly is an efficient and safe software…from secondstate.io

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