Disrupting the Downtime Continuum

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Claims that WebAssembly plus wasmCloud lets teams avoid rebuilding thousands of containers after a vulnerability and demonstrate it live: a Rust xkcd web actor and separate provider are patched downtime-free by swapping providers at runtime without recompiling the actor. Cosmonic’s dashboard deploys identical WASM artifacts from an OCI registry to x86 and ARM hosts across AWS and Azure, routes via NATS lattice, and shows automatic hot upgrade and cross-cloud failover working in real time.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:58Agenda
3. 1:41Neither Web, nor Assembly
4. 3:11But there are some gaps
5. 3:57Modern Computing Env
6. 6:03WebAssembly Host Runtime
7. 6:32wasmCloud Application Runtime
8. 6:58Capabilities
9. 7:44Composable Actors
10. 8:19Lattice Network
11. 8:56How does Cosmonic fit into this?
12. 16:09Spring Boot Pet Clinic
13. 17:03wasmCloud Pet Clinic
14. 26:34What could you do now?
15. 28:04References

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