A Greener, Cost Effective Cloud with Serverless WebAssembly

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Argues WebAssembly as a serverless unit that starts in <1 ms and runs tiny 2–3 MB artifacts, replacing containers and MicroVMs whose cold starts are ~100 ms–1 s and force prewarming. Demonstrates the Spin CLI and Spin Cube deploy path to Kubernetes, a live demo app with 7 Wasm components (finickywhiskers) and a case study showing ~60% compute cost reduction after moving from containerized serverless, with higher density and lower SCI through per-request isolation and cross‑platform binaries.

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1. 0:00Introduction to talk
2. 2:38Serverless and sustainability
3. 6:49Serverless startup problem
4. 10:25WebAssembly for serverless
5. 13:35Spin CLI demo
6. 16:46Deploying Spin apps
7. 20:44Case study benefits
8. 21:49Finicky Whiskers demo
9. 24:18Q&A and resources

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