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Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed with hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci. Join us to discover who’s recently experienced impressive performance improvements using WebAssembly, how maple whiskey is related to Wasm runtimes, and what is the process of innovation. This month our special guest, Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon, shares his incredible journey through the tech industry, his insights on WebAssembly's potential to revolutionize cloud computing, and the innovative work Fermyon is doing with Spin. Explore the evolution from startup to large-scale enterprise and gain valuable perspectives on community building and technological advancements.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to WebAssembly Unleashed

00:49 Firefox's WebAssembly Performance Boost: https://www.howtogeek.com/firefox-75x-faster-running-webassembly/

01:59 Excitement for Upcoming Community Group Events

02:19 Interview with Matt Butcher: Background and Fermyon

05:22 The Birth of WebAssembly at Microsoft

10:01 Wasm Runtime From Browser to Server

16:38 Deis Labs Projects and the Pattern of Innovation

20:04 Failed Projects and Lessons Learned

22:04 Career Journey: From Hewlett Packard to Fermyon

22:21 The Vision Behind Fermyon

24:11 WebAssembly and Cloud Efficiency

27:39 The Birth of Fermyon

31:26 Community Building and Challenges

39:27 What led to Spin?

43:05 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Episode 5 w/Gilad Bracha: https://youtu.be/BQjTShpa8VM?si=DMDyh5U--BaQ_FGE

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Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372

Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

Join hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matthew Yacobucci in an informative and engaging podcast episode, diving into the world of WebAssembly (Wasm). Discover the origins and evolution of Wasm from its early days with Google's Native Client and Mozilla's ASM.js to its current role in transforming web and server-side computing. Learn about the challenges and breakthroughs driving Wasm forward along with common misconceptions and security concerns as it’s integrated into the daily technologies we use. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to the space, this episode provides insights into the exciting future of WebAssembly and its impact on modern software development.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to WebAssembly Unleashed

01:10 The Origins of WebAssembly

01:26 Google's Native Client and ASM.js

03:24 The Rise of WebAssembly

06:33 The Limitations of JavaScript

08:23 WebAssembly's Key Players and Timeline

12:30 WebAssembly System Interface (WASI)

17:10 WebAssembly's Evolution and Future

23:33 WebAssembly in Real-World Applications

25:50 WebAssembly's Impact on User Experience

28:14 Addressing WebAssembly's Criticisms

30:32 Security in WebAssembly

32:30 The Future of WebAssembly

37:55 Reflections and Closing Thoughts

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo

Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:

Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372

Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

In this episode our hosts are joined by Shopify’s Saúl Cabrera to talk about his team’s experience using and deploying WebAssembly. Listen in to learn which Wasm proposals are progressing, why Shopify uses Wasm, what led them to using it in the server side space so early on, how their experience has been, and if they were restarting their work today whether or not they’d still choose WebAssembly.

Chapters:

1:24 – Community updates and proposals

3:23 – Special guest: Saúl Cabrera

3:55 – Shopify’s use of WebAssembly

9:25 – Challenges and progress in WebAssembly

21:49 – Production use and future of WebAssembly

27:08 – Final thoughts and wrap-up

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo

Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:

Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372

Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

In this episode our hosts are joined by Fermyon’s Joel Dice to dive deeper into ISYSWASFA, async, and WebAssembly. Listen in to learn about the new Wasi release cadence, find out how ISYSWASFA began, what’s in development now, and explore what’s in store for the developer experience with async.

Chapters:

0:39 – Meet the hosts and community updates

2:51 – Special guest: Joel Dice

3:21 – Deep dive into Fermyon and Spin

6:13 – Joel’s clean room implementation of the JVM

11:25 – Specification changes and current state

13:30 – Exploring the developer experience of ISYSWASFA and async

17:53 – Challenges of upstreaming ISYSWASFA learnings

23:35 – Are we introducing a what color is your component issue?

26:19 – What’s left to do for a fully working implementation of async in Wasmtime?

29:15 – Closing thoughts and future prospects

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo

Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:

Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/users/joel_moses/398372

Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

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In this episode our hosts are joined by Fastly’s Luke Wagner to discuss WebAssembly, async, and streams. Listen in to learn about the history and evolution of ASMJS, find out if sync and async functions will split WebAssembly, get a rundown on the concept of backpressure, and hear discussion regarding Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA (who you might get to hear from soon, so subscribe for future episodes 😉 ).

Chapters:

00:37 – Meet the hosts and community updates

3:15 – Special guest: Luke Wagner

3:49 – This history and evolution of ASMJS

9:15 – Async and Streams in WebAssembly

10:27 – How async might work in the component model

17:37 – The concept of back pressure

19:08 – Stages of async

21:41 – Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA

26:51 – Fastly’s Compute Management and WebAssembly

29:59 – Closing remarks and future excitement

Dig into the Wasm.IO session recordings we mentioned:

A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model by Luke Wagner @ Wasm I/O 24 - https://youtu.be/y3x4-nQeXxc?si=3XGqdqa9W3WjXSzl

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

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Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

Now in its tenth annual year, the F5 State of Application Strategy Report (SOAS) presents the latest application strategies from IT decision makers around the world. Capping a decade's worth of insights, the data suggests how modernized apps, persistent multicloud management, and an explosion of APIs are influencing app strategy and driving (or hindering) progress toward generative AI. Discover how well your organization is positioned to manage today's distributed apps while deploying AI for a competitive advantage.

In this episode our hosts dive into what’s going on in the WebAssembly community following Wasm.IO and KubeCon before they are joined by Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall of Styra to discuss Open Policy Agent (OPA) and WebAssembly. Listen in to find out updates regarding the WebAssembly registry, get a rundown on Open Policy Agent and what led it to Wasm, the WebAssembly integration challenges OPA’s faced, interesting applications of OPA and Wasm, and so much more!

**SPECIAL NOTE: Since this podcast recording, Linux Foundation has announced that WasmCon is being moved to November.

Dive into our previous episode on Warg with Danny Macovei: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH66SCfAw1I&list=PLyqga7AXMtPNV1zr2aTWEegep0FQU6Qvj&index=5

Chapters:

1:19 – What’s going on in the world of WebAssembly?

2:16 – Developments from Wasm.IO and KubeCon

3:10 – WA.dev and the Warg Protocol

5:42 –What is Open Policy Agent and why is it important?

6:44 – OPA implications for end users

10:51 – State of OPA community

12:40 – What led OPA to WebAssembly

17:00 – From a modular approach, why run Rego policies in other language contexts?

19:52 – How do you compile OPA down to Wasm?

21:42 – How self-contained is OPA and the Wasm models?

25:31 – Integration challenges with Wasm

30:12 – Styra and what it adds on top of Open Policy Agent

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

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Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

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👋 Aubrey King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aubreyking | https://twitter.com/aubreykingf5

In this episode our hosts dive into what’s going on in the Wasm community and are then joined by Chris Dickinson of Dylibso to discuss WebAssembly and observability. Listen in to find out if WebAssembly has reached its Docker moment, hear about Wasm’s growth from hype to functionality, learn about the component model streams issue, and so much more!

Chapters:

1:13 – Has WebAssembly reached its Docker moment?

4:19 – What does it take to put AI on the Edge?

6:04 – Wasm.io highlights

7:29 – What’s going on at Dylibso?

10:49 – How far off are we from a widescale enterprise adoption of WebAssembly?

13:05 – Modsurfer and the benefits to Wasm

16:24 – Dylibso’s Extism

17:27 – Moving data through the boundary

25:39 – Observe SDK

30:28 – How to engage

Dig into the Wasm.IO session recordings we mentioned:

- Filling a Registry-Shaped Hole in the Wasm Component Ecosystem by Daniel Macovei / Oscar Spencer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-10mRN30s

- A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model by Luke Wagner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3x4-nQeXxc

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo

Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports

Meet Your Hosts:

Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372

Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

In this special episode two of our hosts were able to sit down with F5’s Gilad Bracha to discuss what WebAssembly can learn based on Bracha’s experience with JAVA. Listen in to find out whether or not Wasm can deliver on “write once, run anywhere”, what shadows may be on the horizon, what JAVA did right that Wasm can learn from, and so much more!

Chapters:

2:20 – Early days of JAVA Specification

4:46 – Class loaders and JAVA verifier

5:20 – Compiler Engines

7:12 – Promise of “Write once, run anywhere”

9:55 – JAVA’s great opportunity

11:44 – Battle for runtime

13:55 – Wasm 1.0 and Wasm approach

14:55 – JAVA approach

16:38 – Multiple runtimes

18:25 – Shadows on the horizon

20:17 – Complaints from Wasm implementors

24:46 – Wasm GC proposal

27:06 – What did JAVA do right that Wasm can learn from?

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

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Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

In this special episode two of our hosts were able to sit down with F5 NGINX’s Dave McAllister to dive into how Open Source and Standards apply to WebAssembly. Listen in to learn about the benefits of open source on Wasm, why building to the common denominator is important, what WebAssembly is doing right when it comes to driving open standards, what Wasm needs to watch out for, Dave’s thoughts on the speed of standard progression, and so much more!

Chapters:

1:29 – WASI Preview 2

3:26 – ISO3200

5:05 – Standard processes

7:41 – What is Wasm doing right and wrong with driving open standards?

11:10 – How is open source helping Wasm?

12:05 – Open Source: then and now

13:00 – ISO meetings

14:15 – What should Wasm watch out for?

20:10 – The rule of many

16:43 – Speed of Standard progression

22:41 – How individuals are represented inside a Wasm marketplace

24:00 – Intersection of multiple standards and the risks to Wasm

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites:

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Meet Your Hosts:

Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372

Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/

Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/