Lightning Talk: WebAssembly + Application Runtime = A New Era of FaaS?

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Service mesh runs over 200k pods and still leaves tight coupling for cache and queues; proposal treats Application Runtime (Leoto/auto) as a node process that exposes unified runtime APIs and embeds a Wasm host (WasmEdge) in the sidecar motion. Implementation uses a custom containerd shim to start nano-process Wasm modules from Docker-packaged images, with auto exporting capabilities into Wasm via invoke service and get state APIs. Demo shows two functions chained to read/update Redis-backed inventory and return live values.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:25WebAssembly Application Runtime
3. 5:20Application Runtime Demo

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