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In this episode our hosts are joined by Bailey Hayes, CTO of Cosmonic, and Pat Hickey, Principal Engineer at Fastly, to discuss WASI—WebAssembly System (or Standard depending on who you ask) Interface. Listen in to learn more about why WASI is important, what all the “previews” are, whether or not the component model is done, plus so much more!

Chapters:

1:25 – AI and WASM in Edge locations

4:03 – Is it WebAssembly System of Standard Interface?

6:10 – What is WASI and why is it important?

8:41 – What is preview 0, 1, 2, etc.?

10:54 – Is the component model done?

11:35 – Preview 2 vote

13:33 – WASI proposals

17:06 – Features of preview 2

23:21 – Server and client side webassembly

27:06 – J-co project

27:54 – How to get involved

28:33 – Bytecode Alliance guest languages

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 | LinkedIn | @Joel_Moses

Oscar Spencer | X | LinkedIn

Matthew Yacobucci | LinkedIn

In this episode our three hosts are joined by Daniel (Danny) Macovei, co-founder at JAF Labs to discuss registry and package distribution in both a federated and non-opinionated way while ensuring safety and security. Find out what’s unique about Wasm for packet management, learn the difference between locked and bundled components, hear what measures are being taken for Warg security, and tune into some breaking news, plus so much more!

Chapters:

1:20 – Exciting news (won’t spoil it here)

3:10 – Thomas Lively and threat proposals

4:30 – Warg project

5:10 – Package management challenges

8:58 – Difference between locked and bundled

13:45 – Vision for composing components

17:20 – Warg security measures

22:00 – Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

23:55 – Federated and non-opinionated

27:03 – How to get started/involved

30:00 – Open Source

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

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/

Join F5’s Distinguished Engineer, Joel Moses, Principal Software Engineer, Oscar Spencer, and Architect, Matthew Yacobucci for the inaugural episode of WebAssembly Unleashed—a podcast for architects, practitioners, technologists, and general Wasm enthusiasts. In this episode our three hosts delve into the recently released State of Web Assembly survey results. Find out what’s notable in the community, get perspective on what proposals, changes, and updates mean to the Wasm standard, and so much more.

1:02 – Preview for future episodes

1:56 – Get to know the hosts

4:50 – Adoption of languages – Rust, Swift, etc

6:14 – Language support

11:36 – Application plugins and use cases

14:37 – Wasi

18:31 – WebAssembly adoption

19:43 – Debugging support

22:57 – Community Building

26:23 – Community Events

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

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Dan Moore is back and will be teaching us about OAuth Security. We'll learn about the standards docs, token security, using PKCE and other tips for your OAuth implementation. Join Buu Lam live on Tuesday, August 22 at 8:30am Pacific or afterwards by listening to the DevCentral Connects podcast through your favorite podcast app.

DevCentral's Aubrey King talks with James Thomson, F5 Service Provider Architect, about the use cases for Service Providers with Multi-cloud Networking (MCN) and how they may differ from enterprise use cases. What is F5 doing with mobility in this space? Listen to find out!

In November of 2021, F5 began to release quarterly security notifications instead of ad hoc CVEs in an effort to simplify our customer's mitigation steps and to minimize response times and outages in the environments that they protect. At Dev Central, we're teaming up with F5 Security Incident Response Team or SIRT. We’ll be delivering coverage throughout the day to bring the absolute most up to date information to the community.

Customers should check the security advisories to get more information on these issues and to get details on recommended mitigations. We recommend that customers ensure they are running the most current and applicable version to optimize the security and performance of their systems. Quarterly security notifications align the public communication of vulnerabilities and security exposures across F5 deployable offerings into one date each quarter.

Vulnerability, disclosure and remediation is a key part of F5 security practices and a reflection of our efforts to stay vigilant and focused on constant improvement.

The date of the next Quarterly Security Notification is October 18, 2023.

There are many paths to becoming a CTO and one of them will be shared by Joel Moses, CTO of Platforms and Systems at F5. Joel will be sharing what it took to become a CTO and what an aspiring CTO might want to consider doing in order to achieve the same.

https://community.f5.com/t5/dcc-forum/how-to-become-a-cto-joel-moses-devcentral-connects-129-june-6/m-p/316302

App modernization sounds like a great idea but when the project starts, you'll undoubtedly run into some stumbling blocks. JJ Asghar has seen it first hand and will join Buu to share those stumbling blocks and the lessons learned. Tune in Tuesday morning at 8:30AM Pacific on May 30 to hear all about it!

You've deployed your first k8s workloads--high fives all around! But now all that success needs some room to flex. Are you ready? Join Jason as he welcomes Justin Garrison to cover best practices with k8s scalability.

Resources

EKS Best Practices Guide - https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/

Cloud Native Infrastructure - https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/cloud-native-infrastructure/9781491984291/

The Economics of Writing a Technical Book - https://justingarrison.com/blog/2018-05-07-the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book/

Coda: The cultural effects of queueing at Disney Animation - https://media.disneyanimation.com/uploads/production/publication_asset/136/asset/Coda-Siggraph_2016.pdf

Cubernetes Cluster Build in a Mac G4 - https://justingarrison.com/blog/2022-07-06-cubernetes/

Disney+ Launch Badge - https://github.com/rothgar/name-badge

These days, we have the luxury of many tools that can help with making sense of logs. But the fidelity of logs can make a big difference in how easy it is to find that needle in the haystack when troubleshooting. It can also make a big difference in the cost of your logging and observability solution! Shai Almog is a Senior Developer who has developed best practices when it comes to debugging and observability, especially when it comes to kubernetes in production. He'll be joining Jason Rahm to discuss! Tune in live, 8:30am Pacific on May 16 and participate in the discussion!