Taubyte

Taubyte is a fresh Open Source serverless platform that launched in 2022, focusing on decentralized architecture and edge computing. It takes AWS Lambda head on by claiming it’s up to 16 times faster. To back up this impressive claim, they use advanced caching, edge-native deployment, and native WebAssembly for faster module provisioning and reduced cold start times.

Self Hosted

You can deploy Taubyte on your own servers, through cloud providers like AWS or Google Cloud, or even on bare-metal hardware. With this flexibility you can create a network of interconnected nodes that can boost scalability and resilience. The documentation provides detailed instructions on how to deploy Taubyte on your infrastructure of choice.

Hosted

If you want to skip the setup hassle, Taubyte’s managed services let you dive straight into deploying your apps. This hosted version comes with a git-powered hosting service, autonomous load management, and advanced DNS. It also includes content delivery enhancements like content addressing and deduplication, and autonomous scaling of the pub-sub mechanism for real-time messaging and event-driven applications.

What you get

User-friendliness is a big deal for Taubyte. They provide a customizable web console for managing projects and a local cloud environment called Dreamland for development and testing. The libdream framework helps run thorough end-to-end tests to ensure everything works properly before deployment, integrating within the Dreamland environment and supporting lightweight client nodes for testing protocols.

Taubyte also offers edge-native key-value databases and versionable object storage as an alternative to Redis, elasticache, and S3. It has a pub-sub mechanism that scales automatically and integrates with WebSockets and MQTT. This setup works as a trigger for serverless computing and includes auto-discovery and recovery features, making it a good option for real-time, event-driven applications without needing third-party services.

Last but not least, Taubyte introduces Orbit, a WebAssembly runtime enhancement that integrates with LLM’s (Large Language Models). Check out the taubyte-llama-satellite project on GitHub. It really shows off how you can easily orchestrate requests and models.

In a nutshell

Taubyte aims to simplify building scalable, high-performance apps with a low-ops approach and has a lot to offer in terms of features and flexibility. However, like with any new platform, time will tell how well Taubyte performs as it matures.