WebAssembly

eBPF and WebAssembly: whose VM reigns supreme?

The two hottest lightweight code execution sandboxes / VMs in the cloud-native world today are eBPF and WebAssembly. They both run high-performance bytecode programs compiled from C, C++, and Rust. The biggest difference, however, is that eBPF runs inside the Linux kernel while WebAssembly runs in the user space. eBPF has some programming restrictions that makes it safe for kernel use cases (eg no infinite loops). But that also means that eBPF is Turing incomplete.…

WasmEdge for Go Developers

Go developers can benefit from WebAssembly and WasmEdge Runtime in two important ways. You can compile Go programs to run in the WasmEdge container, or embed external functions, written in multiple programming languages, into Go applications as plug-ins. Get started by installing WasmEdge or using the WasmEdge development Docker. Embed WasmEdge in Go applications WasmEdge enables Go developers to embed functions and plug-ins written in different languages, including Rust, Swift, Kotlin, C/C++, JavaScript and TinyGo, into their Go applications.…

WasmEdge for JavaScript Developers

JavaScript developers can benefit from WebAssembly and WasmEdge Runtime in two important ways. You can run JavaScript programs in the WasmEdge container, or call external functions, written in multiple programming languages, from Node.js applications. Get started by installing WasmEdge or using the WasmEdge development Docker. Run JavaScript programs in WasmEdge WebAssembly is a ploygot runtime that supports many front-end programming languages. You can run JavaScript programs efficiently and safely across all OS and hardware platforms WasmEdge supports.…

Manage WebAssembly Apps Using Container and Kubernetes Tools

Developers can leverage container tools such as Kubernetes, Docker and CRI-O to deploy, manage, and run lightweight WebAssembly applications. In this article, we will demonstrate how Kubernetes ecosystem tools work with WasmEdge WebAssembly applications. Compared with Docker, WebAssembly could be 100x faster at startup, have a much smaller memory and disk footprint, and have a better-defined safety sandbox. However, the trade-off is that WebAssembly requires its own language SDKs, and compiler toolchains, making it a more constrained developer environment than Docker.…

🤖 Contribute to the WasmEdge Project via the CNCF LFX Mentorship Fall Term 2021

Contribute to the WasmEdge project. Make your mark in Open Source, and earn a stipend of $3000 to $6600! WasmEdge is a cloud-native WebAssembly runtime hosted by the CNCF. It is widely used in edge computing, automotive, Jamstack, serverless, SaaS, service mesh, and even blockchain applications. WasmEdge is written in C++, and has SDKs for C/C++, Rust, Golang, and JavaScript. We welcome all types of contributions — code, docs, integrations, specs, examples!…

Rust and WebAssembly Serverless functions in Vercel

Vercel is a leading platform for developing and hosting Jamstack applications. Unlike traditional web apps, where the UI is dynamically generated at runtime from a server, a Jamstack application consists of a static UI (in HTML and JavaScript) and a set of serverless functions to support dynamic UI elements via JavaScript. There are many benefits to the Jamstack approach. But perhaps one of the most significant benefits is performance. Since the UI is no longer generated at runtime from a central server, there is much less load on the server and we can now deploy the UI via edge networks such as CDNs.…

WebAssembly Serverless Functions in Netlify

Netlify is a leading platform for developing and hosting Jamstack applications. In fact, the term Jamstack was coined by Netlify founder Mathias Biilmann in 2015. Netlify also hosts the annual Jamstack Conf. A Jamstack application consists of a static UI (in HTML and JavaScript) and a set of serverless functions to support dynamic UI elements via JavaScript. There are many benefits to the Jamstack approach. But perhaps one of the most significant benefits is performance.…

AI Inference for Real-time Data Streams with WasmEdge and YoMo

YoMo is a programming framework enabling developers to build a distributed cloud system (Geo-Distributed Cloud System). YoMo's communication layer is made on top of the QUIC protocol, which brings high-speed data transmission. In addition, it has a built-in Streaming Serverless “streaming function”, which significantly improves the development experience of distributed cloud systems. The distributed cloud system built by YoMo provides an ultra-high-speed communication mechanism between near-field computing power and terminals. It has a wide range of use cases in Metaverse, VR/AR, IoT, etc.…

Extend your Golang app with embedded WebAssembly functions in WasmEdge

The GO programming language (Golang) is an easy-to-use and secure programming language that compiles into high-performance native applications. It is a very popular choice for writing software infrastructure and frameworks. A key requirement for software frameworks is the ability for users to extend and customize it with their own code. However, in Golang, adding user-defined functions or extensions to an existing app is not easy. Oftentimes, you need to integrate at the source code level by combining the source code for the framework and the user-defined functions.…

Second State joins the Autoware Foundation

Second State has joined the Autoware Foundation as an industry member. Through collaboration with the Foundation and member organizations, Second State aims to create and promote an open-source virtualization runtime for Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). According to a recent paper on IEEE Spectrum, a typical car has 50+ software vendors. Traditional automotive engineering keeps those heterogeneous software components safe via hardware isolation. That is to enclose each vendor’s software in its own hardware known as an ECU.…