The Wasm Wilderness: Technological Peaks We've Reached with WebAssembly
summary
WebAssembly leaves the browser for cloud, edge, IoT and plugins with concrete building blocks: a security-first one‑page spec, WASI for filesystem, HTTP and key/value access, the component model, and an OCI artifact layout so modules run anywhere. Runtimes like Spin and Spin Cube instantiate in <1 ms startup, scale to zero and survive a Fermyon cloud load test of 10,000 concurrent Wasm apps where CPU spikes drop back to baseline. Open standards enable portability and secure isolation.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:49Learning from history
- 3:12WASI and server resources
- 4:08Cloud security and standards
- 6:09Edge computing performance
- 7:30IoT and embedded systems
- 9:20Extensibility through plugins
- 10:47Conclusion and future outlook
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