7 posts tagged with "Cosmonic"

We’re excited to see our friends again as we embark on a whistle-stop tour of two of our favorite European events (and cities) in the 2024 conference calendar: WASM I/O, Barcelona and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024, Paris. With the release of WASI 0.2 and the WebAssembly component model, we’re taking wasmCloud 1.0 on tour—introducing it to cloud native developers, and platform engineers, as the best place to bring components to life in production environments.

You've heard of the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat
But what about Wasm, did you hear about that?
Dive into this poem, take a quick look
The story of Wasm, in this neat little book

• Component Model update published: WASI-Preview 2 now MVP
• Cosmonic componentizes wasmCloud and Cosmonic PaaS
• Creates standards-based, vendor-neutral environment for building distributed apps
• Spurs wave of PaaS innovation

Every year, twice a year, we're lucky enough to see the latest and greatest in Cloud Native Wasm in one jam-packed day. This year we had the pleasure of traveling to Amsterdam for the EU circuit of KubeCon. Knowing that not everyone would be able to fly out to catch the event, we sponsored the recordings so that all of this great content would make it onto YouTube after the event. We've been attending WasmDay at CNCF KubeCon since the first one, and we wanted to share our insights with you for each talk, including a high level summary, some space for opinions, and then eventually the embedded recording once available.

Catch up on the amazing CloudSkills.fm podcast online at CloudSkills.fm Episode 138 or on Apple Podcasts - CloudSkills.fm.

Those new to WebAssembly (Wasm) often start with the basics: “What is WebAssembly?,” “How does it work?,” and “Why is it worth paying attention to?”

Simply put, WebAssembly is a virtual machine that executes in a browser as an alternative to JavaScript. For the enterprise, the real magic comes from Wasm's evolution into a high-performance, cross-platform polyglot sandbox that can be used to build distributed and back-end systems.

As I wrote in The New Stack, one of the fastest-growing Cloud Native trends of 2021 is the adoption of WebAssembly (Wasm). With distributed application runtimes like wasmCloud (a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project we donated this summer) we see WebAssembly appearing on the server and the edge. This in turn addresses the myriad set of challenges hindering distributed application development, deployment, and maintenance.

The reasons behind the surge are broad and driven by CPU diversity, multiple operating environments, security, distributed application architecture, and scalability, all of which transcend deployments into a single public cloud provider.

It’s true: Cosmonic, the WebAssembly pioneer, is bringing the joy back to distributed application development. Our goal is to enable developers to deliver truly portable applications, independent of where they execute and the capabilities they deliver.

With the 0.50 release of wasmCloud, we proudly believe we’re enabling a critical foundation for building universally portable cloud-native applications with WebAssembly that can plug into multi-cloud, multi-edge and far-edge environments directly inside a browser.