Choosing Customizability and Distributing Dependencies with Wasm Components - Taylor Thomas

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Choosing Customizability and Distributing Dependencies with Wasm Components - Taylor Thomas, Cosmonic
For the past 10 years, the adoption of containers and Kubernetes revolutionized workload flexibility and reusability. However, application development is now a tangled mess of copied boilerplate with a nest of shared dependencies, often driven by platform requirements rather than application needs. With the new Wasm Component Model, developers and platform engineers now have a way to bring their own reusable interfaces and business logic, creating a vendor-less and SDK-free world. wasmCloud, a CNCF application platform, leverages the component model to run your code distributed anywhere, no matter what or where your dependencies are. In this talk, we will show how a Wasm component can run in two different systems and how easy it is to add custom interfaces - all using open source tooling and projects like wasi-virt and W3C standardized interfaces. Then we will demonstrate how you can add custom interfaces without any changes to your runtime while also being able to run it anywhere.