Mewz: Lightweight Execution Environment for WebAssembly with High Isolation and Portability using Unikernels · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2411.01129/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTMewz: Lightweight Execution Environment for WebAssembly with High Isolation and Portability using Unikernels — mentioned by westurnerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139318urn:hackerpapers:mention:2411.01129:44139318Fri, 30 May 2025 19:39:13 GMT<p>From https://e2b.dev/blog/firecracker-vs-qemu &gt; AWS built [Firecracker (which is built on KVM)] to power Lambda and Fargate [2], where they need to quickly spin up isolated environments for running customer code. Companies like E2B use Firecracker to run AI generated code securily in the cloud, while Fly.io uses it to run lightweight container-like VMs at the edge [4, 5]. &quot;We replaced Firecracker with QEMU&quot; (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666782 &quot;Firecracker&#x27;s Kernel Support Policy&quot; describes compatible kernel configurations…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2411.01129/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DC