WebAssembly and Nomad for Next Wave Microservices
summary
A playable demo called Finicky Whiskers demonstrates WebAssembly microservices orchestrated with Nomad, Spin and Fermion Platform 1: the game uses about 30 static-asset WASM file-server invocations, plus session, tally, morsel and scoreboard services, producing roughly 262 WebAssembly modules executed within a 30‑second game on three t2 small instances. Modules start in milliseconds, memory is preloaded for flat usage, CPU shows short spikes, and the system runs comfortably under load — proving the approach works at small cloud scale with Spin and Fermion Platform 1 on Nomad.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and demo
- 1:25Why WebAssembly for cloud
- 9:51Spin framework overview
- 13:20Finicky Whiskers architecture
- 17:10Running WebAssembly in Nomad
- 18:34Performance metrics
- 22:05Load generation analysis
- 24:11Why WebAssembly excels
- 24:33Next steps and resources
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