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Serverless Platforms and WASM with Connor Hicks - DevOps 134
Episode 134

Serverless Platforms and WASM with Connor Hicks - DevOps 134

Adventures in DevOps · Will Button, Warren Parad

October 6, 202251m 56s

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Show Notes

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Connor Hicks, founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly. They discuss how WebAssembly works, running WASM on the “edge” network, Suborbital's capabilities, and everything in-between.

In this episode…
  • WebAssembly on the server
  • The “edge” and edge computing
  • Security, performance, portability
  • WASM in the cloud limitations
  • Virtualized sandboxes
  • Alternatives to edge computing
  • Writing in other languages
  • What is the learning curve of the security model?
  • Suborbital's capabilities and language support