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Case Study: A WebAssembly Failure, and Lessons Learned

VANCOUVER — In their talk “Microservices and WASM, Are We There Yet?” at the https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/course-catalog/?utm_content=inline-mention https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kingdon-barrett-73100a2/ of Weaveworks, and https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-christensen-96155833/ of Defense Unicorns, said they were surprised as anyone that their talk was accepted since they were newbies who had spent about three weeks delving into this nascent technology.

“Wasm has largely delivered on its promise in a browser and in apps, but what about for microservices?”

“If you’re using an interpreted language, it’s still interpreted in Wasm,” Barrett said. “If you’re passing the script itself into Wasm, the interpreter is compiled in Wasm but the script is still interpreted.”