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World Congress 2023 β€’ Sep 22, 2023

The Future of Cloud is WebAssembly

Matt Butcher

Server-side WebAssembly is the ultimate cure for crippling serverless cold starts. Discover how to eliminate infrastructure constraints and deploy cross-platform backend services with sub-millisecond execution.

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#1 about 2 min

Transitioning from content management to cloud infrastructure

How early career shifts from content management systems to cloud technologies prompted new software solutions.

#2 about 2 min

Demonstrating load generation using a browser game

A simple cat feeding game illustrates the mechanics of generating high-frequency server requests.

#3 about 2 min

Defining serverless as a software development paradigm

Serverless functions operate as isolated event handlers without the overhead of demonized server processes.

#4 about 3 min

The evolution of cloud compute abstractions

Cloud runtimes advanced from heavyweight virtual machines to containers and lightweight functional architectures.

#5 about 6 min

Identifying pain points in current serverless execution

Lengthy cold starts, operating system dependencies, and complicated setup flows limit operational efficiency.

#6 about 6 min

Origins and design goals of WebAssembly

WebAssembly emerged as a highly secure, cross-platform byte code format for browser execution.

#7 about 3 min

How technologies evolve beyond original design constraints

Comparing Java and Ruby reveals how platforms frequently scale past their initial embedded or scripting purposes.

#8 about 3 min

Applying WebAssembly to serverless cloud environments

Using WebAssembly as a backend compute layer provides sub-millisecond cold starts and robust sandboxing.

#9 about 2 min

Building serverless WebAssembly workloads with Spin

The open-source Spin toolchain simplifies scaffolding, compiling, and executing serverless WebAssembly applications.

#10 about 5 min

Analyzing the microservice architecture of Finicky Whiskers

Breaking down a web application into discrete microservices showcases the extreme startup speed of WebAssembly.

#11 about 2 min

Streamlining developer pipelines with integrated infrastructure

Embedding databases and key-value storage simplifies the transition from local development to production deployment.

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2:27 min

Introduction to WebAssembly in a cloud computing context

Edo Edo Β· WWC 2024

2:29 min

Using WebAssembly for fast and secure serverless computing

Maurice Brinkmann Β· WWC 2023

1:32 min

Career evolution from content management to cloud infrastructure

Maurice Brinkmann Β· WWC 2023

2:44 min

Deploying WebAssembly modules in cloud and serverless platforms

Edo Edo Β· WWC 2024

3:32 min

Redefining WebAssembly beyond browser video games

Edoardo Dusi Β· LIVE

3:27 min

Evolution of web architectures toward serverless computing workflows

Cheng Zhang Β· LIVE

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