Reviewing Technologies I Loved From CloudNativeCon (Part I-WasmCloud)
I attended the event as a way to chart my learning path.
Setting the ambience with this track from Turnstile. I love the video so much, it gives off this 3D feeling.
CloudNativeCon rounds up today, and the five techs I mostly paid attention to, as seen from the CNCF slack channel are:
I attended the event as a way to chart my learning path.
WASM-Cloud
Web Assembly cloud is one interesting tech I first came across during Open Source Festival Africa two months ago.
The presenter Chris Aniszczyk said it's a new trend after containers. But I didn't spend the time to look deep into it because I am studying for my CCNA exams. Thankfully there was a whole day dedicated to the technology on CloudNativeCon.
What is WebAssembly-Cloud
According to the presenter, it is a way to not only run moving objects through Javascript on the web, but also C++ apps. And that is wild, because the only way to run a heavy workload on a browser is via Javascript or Server-Side Rendering.
Buttt, using the above is resource the demanding, well, not until the WASM-Cloud solution.
What Other Platforms Can WebAssembly Run On
It can run on platforms like:
Desktops
Mobile
Internet Edge which is closer to the consumers than cloud computing
And of course Web Browsers
How Can You Write WebAssembly Code?
This can simply be written in other programming languages like Python, and then converted to WebAssembly by its interpreter.
Finishing Thought
As I said earlier, this tech is wild, it run apps way lighter than containers do. You know how long it takes to load image-intensive websites, but now you can run video-intensive games, but without lags, on your browser. Now thats peak.
Or the thought of executing a python script, and it prints on a browser just like writing PHP. It all just seems crazy to me. I hope to pick up a simple book that gives an even better overview about this tech, but from a basic understanding.
The Art of WebAssembly: Build Secure, Portable, High-Performance Applications https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718501447/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_QXM53VPZ22YP5ECCQVYY
I have the one above in mind, but I won't rush things yet.
But I feel like, it could be Web Developers who will play with this tech more. Though I am not certain yet, I am just observing that it is the packaged code of the tech that is administratively managed by Kubernetes admins, a route I am taking. So I probably will be the dude managing clusters of them.
Anyways, talk later.