Matt Butcher
The Future of Cloud is WebAssembly
#1about 3 minutes
A career journey from CMS to cloud and WebAssembly
The speaker traces his career path from PHP and Drupal to OpenStack, Kubernetes, and eventually WebAssembly.
#2about 4 minutes
Defining serverless and the evolution of cloud compute
Serverless is defined as an event-handler software pattern, distinct from the evolution of cloud infrastructure from virtual machines to containers.
#3about 6 minutes
Identifying the key challenges of serverless functions
Current serverless platforms suffer from slow cold start times, operating system dependencies, and a complex developer experience.
#4about 5 minutes
Understanding the original design goals of WebAssembly
WebAssembly was created for the browser as a secure, portable, fast, and language-agnostic bytecode format to complement JavaScript.
#5about 2 minutes
How technologies outgrow their original intended purpose
Examples like Java and Ruby show that a technology's most successful application can be far different from its original design intent.
#6about 3 minutes
Applying WebAssembly to solve serverless performance issues
WebAssembly's core features of security, portability, and speed make it an ideal runtime for a new generation of serverless computing, drastically reducing cold start times.
#7about 2 minutes
Introducing Spin for building WebAssembly serverless functions
Spin is an open-source developer tool that simplifies creating, building, and deploying serverless applications compiled to WebAssembly.
#8about 4 minutes
Demonstrating Wasm speed with the Finicky Whiskers game
The architecture of a simple web game reveals how hundreds of individual WebAssembly functions can execute per session, showcasing its high performance and low overhead.
#9about 1 minute
Improving the developer experience beyond performance
The WebAssembly ecosystem aims to improve the serverless developer experience by streamlining common tasks like configuring key-value stores and databases.
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