128: WebAssembly with Kevin Hoffman
What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.
Programming Throwdown · Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci with guest Kevin Hoffman
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Show Notes
Summary:
What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.
Notes:
00:00:16 Introduction
00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID
00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings
00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations
00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?
00:27:30 The developer experience
00:30:30 WebAssembly, JSON, and other object interactions
00:36:35 Rollbar
00:41:08 Compiler linking
00:49:27 wasmCloud
00:54:21 Decoupling clouds
01:01:51 Cosmonic fostering wasmCloud/WebAssembly
01:03:28 Cosmonic as a company
01:09:33 Opportunities at Cosmonic
01:13:03 Farewells
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Companies:
- Cosmonic
- Website: https://cosmonic.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmonic
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cosmonic-corp/
People:
- Kevin Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%A6%80-kevin-hoffman-9252669/
Sponsor:
- Rollbar
- Website: https://rollbar.com/
- Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/
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