Platform Engineers assemble! Create your FaaS Platform using WASM
summary
Claims a practical FaaS platform built with wasmCloud and WebAssembly that replaces full containers and Kubernetes for many jobs. Pipelines produce OCI-compliant WASM binaries (1–2 MB) instead of image layers (hundreds of MB), startup drops to a few milliseconds versus seconds, and unused functions consume effectively zero RAM. A lightweight host mesh called the wasmCloud lattice runs components and plugable capability providers, manifests follow the Open Application Model, and Argo CD handles deployment.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:31What is an internal developer platform
- 4:45Platform capabilities and components
- 6:53Traditional project creation workflow
- 9:09Software catalog and templates
- 10:59Limitations of containers for simple use cases
- 11:43WebAssembly fundamentals
- 13:11WASM vs containers comparison
- 15:22Introducing WASM Cloud
- 16:48Platform changes with WASM
- 17:52Component catalog with WASM
- 18:56Benefits of WASM-based platform
- 20:45Resource management advantages
- 21:05Summary and closing
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