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Is Wasm the new Java? (Ship It! #106)

Is Wasm the new Java? (Ship It! #106)

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May 31, 20241h 5m

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Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.

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WTA: What The Acronym

  • ASM - Assembly
  • WASM - WebAssembly. Came from asm.js from Mozilla
  • AOT - ahead of time compilation
  • JIT - just in time compilation
  • WASI - WebAssembly system interface. Types: io, clocks, random, filesystem, sockets, cli, http
  • WIT - WebAssembly Interface Type
  • Wasmer - by wasmer company
  • WAPM - WebAssembly Package Manager
  • Wasmtime - Bytecode alliance (amazon, cisco, arm, docker, intel microsoft)

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