The Future of Cloud is WebAssembly

What if serverless cold starts were under one millisecond? Discover how WebAssembly is making it a reality for high-performance cloud applications.

#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.