World Congress 2023 Sep 21, 2023

Fun with PaaS – How to use Cloud Foundry and its uniqueness in creative ways

Maurice Brinkmann

Traditional serverless cold starts cripple performance. Server-side WebAssembly fixes this by delivering sub-millisecond execution across any platform. Build lightning-fast microservices effortlessly with minimal configuration.

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#1 about 2 min

Career evolution from content management to cloud infrastructure

Background experiences in cloud technologies lead to the exploration of WebAssembly.

#2 about 2 min

Introducing the Finicky Whiskers cat feeding game

An interactive browser game demonstrates rapid server execution and state management.

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Defining serverless as a software development paradigm

Serverless computing shifts development focus to event handlers rather than managing hardware environments.

#4 about 3 min

The evolution of cloud computing and virtualization

Cloud architectures progress from heavyweight virtual machines to containers and lightweight web functions.

#5 about 6 min

Identifying developer frustrations with serverless architectures

Cold start times and complex operational requirements hinder the developer experience for distributed serverless functions.

#6 about 5 min

The origins and design principles of WebAssembly

A resilient byte code format emerges to provide secure and cross-platform execution capabilities inside web browsers.

#7 about 3 min

How programming technologies outgrow their original purposes

Languages like Java and Ruby evolved far beyond their initial embedded contexts and localized scripting applications.

#8 about 3 min

Using WebAssembly for fast and secure serverless computing

WebAssembly offers an optimized runtime capable of executing secure serverless workload iterations in mere milliseconds.

#9 about 2 min

Building serverless functions with the Spin developer tool

Spin streamlines the creation and deployment of executable web assembly binaries across varied environments.

#10 about 5 min

Architecting the Finicky Whiskers game with WebAssembly microservices

The intentionally inefficient game generates immense remote load to accurately demonstrate the execution speed of web microservices.

#11 about 2 min

Streamlining local development with integrated storage solutions

Built-in support for databases and key value storage reduces the typical burden of configuring local testing environments.

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Analyzing the microservice architecture of Finicky Whiskers

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Building serverless WebAssembly workloads with Spin

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Redefining WebAssembly beyond browser video games

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Deploying WebAssembly modules in cloud and serverless platforms

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