I Wasm’t Expecting This Many Apps: Scaling Without Losing Your Bytes

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Claims that wasmCloud centralizes core services via a pluggable capability model, shows two integration patterns—lift-and-shift and WIT-defined shared APIs—and demos concrete results: container cold start measured at 1.4 seconds cold start versus enterprise targets around 300 ms, and a composition test running 10,000 unique functions on a single host. Built artifacts include platform harnesses, composed Wasm components with virtual file systems and capability-driven isolation, and language SDKs generated from WIT; security and multi-cloud updates are shown working at scale.

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1. 0:00WebAssembly scaling intro
2. 1:06Platform engineering flaws
3. 3:57Serverless platforms state
4. 8:55Waste in container scaling
5. 11:04Platform harness pattern
6. 12:51Bank validator demo
7. 14:34Scaling 10K functions
8. 17:47Harness superpowers
9. 18:28WebAssembly security
10. 21:16File system virtualization
11. 24:06Adopters and success
12. 27:15Least privilege practice
13. 27:44Q&A

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