Wasm, WASI, Wagi: What are they?
Any new technology comes with a litany of new terminology. WebAssembly is no different. In this post, we take a look at how Wasm (short for WebAssembly), WASI (the WebAssembly System Interface) and Wagi (WebAssembly Gateway Interface) work together. The Fermyon Spin framework makes use of all three of these.
WebAssembly Languages
With WebAssembly gaining momentum, a new breed of WebAssembly-specific languages have arrived on the scene. In this post we cover a few of these, including Grain and AssemblyScript
Writing a WebAssembly Service in TinyGo for Wagi and Spin
Of the growing list of WebAssembly capable programming languages, Go is one of our favorites. In this post, we build a real (but tiny) service with TinyGo.
What is Bindle
Bindle is the silverware drawer for Wasm objects. It provides an efficient and flexible packaging system for component-based applications that have variable dependencies.
5 Fun Wasm Projects (that you might not have known about)
In this post, we're going to explore some of our favorite WebAssembly projects that you may not have heard of before
Come join the Fermyon Discord community!
Come join a thriving community of passionate WebAssembly engineers and thought leaders where you can learn about current and upcoming Fermyon projects
The Scale to Zero Problem
Rather than run an application all the time, what if we could only start it when it was needed, and thus avoid the cloud cost of running unused services? This was the idea behind scale-to-zero. WebAssembly has an answer.
Why the Bytecode Alliance is important to the Wasm ecosystem
For any ecosystem to grow, it's important for standards to be implemented that establish trust with users within the community. This is the motivation behind the Bytecode Alliance, a non-profit standards setting organization devoted to building secure-by-default software.
Introducing Spin
Spin is our new, open source WebAssembly framework - for building, distributing, and running WebAssembly apps.
A Reckoning for Serverless
Serverless did not quite live up to its promise. But why? Partly, it was never well-defined. Also, the vision overreached the technology available at the time. But things are different now. Has serverless failed or is it about to hit a renaissance?
Running Python in WebAssembly
Python can now be compiled to Wasm. In this post, we show how to run cloud-side Python in a WebAssembly runtime.
Introduction to WebAssembly on the Cloud
WebAssembly may have started as a browser technology, but it has moved outward. One hugely promising space for WebAssembly is in the cloud. Its security, speed, size, and flexibility make it a great basis for building cloud services.
Wasm.Builders: The Site for Learning WebAssembly
Introducing a new community for sharing WebAssembly news and information
Is WebAssembly Susceptible to Log4Shell-style Attacks?
The recent Log4j attack provides an opportunity to talk about that characteristic and see why WebAssembly is resistant to this kind of attack.
Scripting Languages and Compiled Languages in WebAssembly
The promise of WebAssembly is that it can be a common runtime for all sorts of languages. But there are differences between how we traditionally write in scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Ruby) versus compiled languages (C/C++, Go, Rust). In this post, we survey the WebAssembly landscape to see what is happening along these fronts.
Containers vs. WebAssembly: What's the Difference?
It is common to hear WebAssembly compared to Docker Containers (or OCI Containers). What's the difference? We look at the key differences between Wasm and Docker Containers.
Rethinking Microservices
Microservices are serving us well in many ways. But in some ways, we can do better. Will microservices v2 be powered by WebAssembly?
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