WebAssembly in Production: Building a Platform with Wasm and wasmCloud - Lessons from Cosmonic

The talk reviews WebAssembly and wasmCloud, then uses Cosmonic’s platform to explain their production use across infrastructure provisioning, tracing, data stores, messaging, and security. It discusses tradeoffs, remaining gaps, and lessons learned.

Syllabus

Intro
Neither Web, nor Assembly
But there are some gaps
Modern Computing Env
wasmCloud Application Runtime
Capabilities
Lattice Network
What is Cosmonic?
Dogfooding 101
What tech do we use?
Debugging and getting saved by Tracing
An infrastructure provision trace
Speed and Scale
Event Sourcing and Reactive Programming
Abstracting over Infrastructures
Defense in Depth
Welcome to the Bleeding Edge
Wasm Pros vs Cons
wasmCloud-Specific Lessons
For Cosmonic
References