Cloud-Native WebAssembly: Containerization On the Edge

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Cloud-native WebAssembly claims runtime images drop from hundreds of megabytes to 2 MB images, start in sub‑millisecond startup instead of tens or hundreds of milliseconds, and cut sidecar overhead that can use ~40% CPU. It uses WasmEdge + crun and hooks into existing tooling—Docker Desktop + containerd integration—so WASM microservices run alongside Linux containers; a demo composes two Linux containers plus one WASM service and works. Rust and JavaScript (Node API coming) are primary languages; WASI NN exposes TensorFlow/PyTorch for inference.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:35How it started
3. 10:09How it's going
4. 15:43Trade-offs
5. 26:01JavaScript-how
6. 31:02A complete example
7. 35:22Kubernetes

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