Moving Beyond Containers - Introducing Boxer

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Boxer converts Dockerfiles into runnable Wasm boxes using Marquott to provide a virtualized libc and a Rust VFS, compiling C with clang and linking against the Marquott libs. The prototype implements about 60% of POSIX calls and aims to support ~95% of typical container workloads; a demo builds a box, runs the same C binary locally and in the browser, and swaps runtimes (wen time w zero whammer).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:02Why developers love containers
3. 3:31Building WebAssembly plugin framework
4. 5:21Containers vs WebAssembly limits
5. 7:50Unix in WebAssembly
6. 10:39Marquott: virtualizing libc
7. 12:47Boxer architecture
8. 14:16Live Boxer demo
9. 17:11Universal Boxer deployment
10. 18:56Boxer status and goals
11. 20:41Boxer impact
12. 22:50Q&A

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