WebAssembly & the Future of NGINX

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NGINX announces adoption of WASI HTTP Proxy next year and claims WebAssembly modules run with a small code footprint and near‑native speeds, enabling language‑agnostic plugins that don’t require recompiling NGINX. Preview 3 streams let request and response handlers be identical so components compose directly with no network hops, and tools like whack plus WASM registries (OCI‑style distribution) are already usable to publish, fetch, and chain plugins across proxies.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:31What does NGINX do
3. 0:53NGINX Plus
4. 1:12How widespread is NGINX
5. 1:44extensibility
6. 2:33scripting
7. 3:24WebAssembly
8. 4:00Proxy WM
9. 5:36Standards
10. 6:34Wazi
11. 8:12Streams
12. 9:28Performance
13. 10:18Inex
14. 10:40Other useful standards
15. 12:49Wrap up

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