WebAssembly and Containers

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WebAssembly modules compile once and start, run, exit nearly instantly using Fermyon’s Spin as the runtime, while Docker hosts long‑running services like Redis. The demo app finicky whiskers hits about ~262 Wasm invocations per 30s as each button click spawns short-lived microservices that push messages into Redis; Spin scores 99–100% on page‑speed checks and the combined setup scales to zero when idle and horizontally under load, demonstrating the complementarity of Wasm + Docker.

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1. 0:00Introduction and game demo
2. 0:53Speaker introduction
3. 1:42WebAssembly vs. Docker
4. 2:37Defining cloud computing
5. 3:41Comparing compute models
6. 6:19The need for lightweight compute
7. 7:05WebAssembly as the solution
8. 11:24Introducing Spin
9. 12:25Finicky Whiskers architecture
10. 13:29Gameplay as load generation
11. 14:32Request-response flow
12. 16:53Load analysis
13. 18:04Backend demonstration
14. 19:28Architectural takeaways
15. 24:17Resources and conclusion

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