The Kubernetes of Lambda

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.

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Featuring:

• Bailey Hayes – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Taylor Thomas – Twitter, GitHub
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

WebAssembly

• Bytecode Alliance
• WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)
• wasmCloud

Request For Comments (RFC)

• About RFCs
• Common network RFCs

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:51)

3. Sponsor: Neon (00:07:11)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

4. What is Wasi? (00:12:59)

5. Why switch to WebAssembly? (00:15:20)

6. Abstraction limits (00:17:05)

7. When do I use Wasi? (00:19:54)

8. Bring your own components (00:23:36)

9. A piece of the puzzle (00:26:09)

10. Short lived runtime (00:29:19)

11. Long running requests (00:30:38)

12. The Kubernetes of Lambda (00:31:29)

13. Wasm backend (00:34:07)

14. Responsible architecture (00:41:26)

15. Other event driven runtimes (00:45:59)

16. Bytecode Alliance (00:46:59)

17. Problem with AI (00:50:39)

18. Thanks for joining us! (00:56:43)

19. Sponsor: Retool (00:57:22)

https://retool.com/changelog

20. The closer (01:02:00)

21. Outro (01:16:01)