31 posts tagged with "WebAssembly"

By enabling cloud native back ends to run on operational edges, Wasm allows us to deploy business logic closer to users or data, even to places Kubernetes and containers can't go.

This article first appeared in InfoWorld as part of the New Tech Forum.

Collaboration, community, and diversity are the keys to technological innovation. This is why we are thrilled to announce that Cosmonic is involved in two adjacent events, set to revolutionize the WebAssembly (Wasm) landscape: The Linux Foundation's WasmCon and the Bytecode Alliance's WebAssembly Hackathon. Both events are being held near each other - WasmCon in Bellevue, WA on September 6 and 7, and “Componentize the World” on Friday September 8th in Redmond, WA.

Cosmonic will be there – and you should be, too.

Over the last 20 years, we have made huge strides in abstracting common complexities from the lives of developers. Wave after wave of innovation has driven the technology cycle. Enterprises have organized and executed around raising the delivery abstraction targeted by their developers. With each wave, we have simplified the effort, reduced the time to deliver and hastened the pace of innovation.

Every year, twice a year, we're lucky enough to see the latest and greatest in Cloud Native Wasm in one jam-packed day. This year we had the pleasure of traveling to Amsterdam for the EU circuit of KubeCon. Knowing that not everyone would be able to fly out to catch the event, we sponsored the recordings so that all of this great content would make it onto YouTube after the event. We've been attending WasmDay at CNCF KubeCon since the first one, and we wanted to share our insights with you for each talk, including a high level summary, some space for opinions, and then eventually the embedded recording once available.

• Cosmonic Connect allows third party integration with popular technologies and infrastructure
• Cosmonic Connect Kubernetes launches at KubeCon EU
• Introducing wadm: familiar, declarative application management for wasmCloud apps

From the beginning of our days developing wasmCloud, we took a stance to be compatible with today's technology without being dependent on it. So, wasmCloud needed to be able to:

• Run inside or outside of a container
• Run inside of Kubernetes or another orchestrator and run without it
• Run on Linux, but also support Mac and Windows (and not just WSL)
• Etc

There is nothing more chaotic today than the current state of cybersecurity.

In my latest article in The New Stack, “How Web Assembly Can Mitigate the Software Supply Chain Crisis,” I discussed the relative ease with which today’s predominant method for building software allows for malware infection across all components of an application.

Until now, the method for building software relied on the aggregation of software components that often lack distinct security boundaries between them.

During Cloud Native Wasm Day, Adobe’s Colin Murphy talked about how Adobe is using WebAssembly within its flagship web browser-based products Photoshop, Lightroom and Acrobat. He also explored potential Wasm use cases for edge compute and in the data center with wasmCloud.

During WasmDay and KubeCon EU, a handful of cloud native developers demonstrated how they’re using WebAssembly and wasmCloud to simplify distributed application development and dramatically reduce their costs.

In his Lightning Talk, “wasmCloud and Bevy ECS: Solution to Woe of Indie Game Developers” Alan, Poon Yong Quan demonstrated how he’s using wasmCloud and Bevy ECS, a data-driven game engine built in Rust, to lower cloud platform costs for multi-player games.