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Maybe WebAssembly Is the Next Evolutionary Step From Containers: Fermyon at InfoQ DevSummit Munich
During her presentation at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon and co-chair of the CNCF wasm-wg, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative and a potential evolution from the current containerised approach to serverless computing.
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Chicory - a WebAssembly Interpreter Written Purely in Java with Zero Native Dependencies
Recently, multiple languages have begun supporting compilation to WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing developers to build real polyglot systems. Chicory is a Wasm interpreter for the JVM with zero native dependencies and can run on any JVM. As wazero in the Go ecosystem, Chicory promises developers to safely interact with libraries written in any language supported by the Wasm ecosystem.
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Fortran on Cloudflare Workers Leveraging WebAssembly
Cloudflare has recently showcased how to run Fortran on Cloudflare Workers by compiling to WebAssembly. The project leveraged recent advancements in LLVM Flang, enabling Fortran to compile to Wasm.
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KubeCon EU Keynotes: a Call to Action to Innovate Responsibly with Generative AI
The KubeCon EU morning keynotes were a veritable call to action encouraging the cloud-native community's involvement in building the scalable infrastructure needed by generative AI. This call was balanced with encouragement to make a cloud-native platform’s “golden path” green and sustainable, ensuring that any innovation is also responsible.
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Lapce is a Native Open-Source Code Editor Written in Rust and Supporting Remote Development
Written in Rust, Lapce sports a native GUI leveraging GPU acceleration and an extensible plugin system based on WASI. It comes with support for syntax highlighting, code completion, and code diagnostics using any LSP-compliant server.
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Fermyon Spin 2.0 Adds Support for WebAssembly Components and WASI Preview 2
Spin 2.0, an open-source tool to build and run serverless WebAssembly apps, gets support for WebAssembly components, improves performance and developer experience, and lays the foundation for Wasm portability across runtimes and implementations.
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Kotlin Multiplatform Reaches Stability
Kotlin Multiplatform, a solution created by JetBrains to enable the use of Kotlin to share native code across different platforms, is now stable and ready for production use, says JetBrains engineer Ekaterina Petrova.
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Shopify Open-Sources Ruvy, a Toolchain to Create Wasm Modules from Ruby Code
Recently open-sourced by Spotify, Ruvy is a WebAssembly toolchain capable to translate Ruby code into Wasm modules. Based on ruby.wasm, Ruvy is implemented in Rust and includes some optimizations to improve performance and to simplify Wasm module execution.
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Golem Unveils a Resilient Computing Platform for Serverless Workers with WebAssembly Component Model
Recently Golem released its flagship product Golem Cloud, a durable computing platform allowing developers to build and deploy long-running, stateful serverless workers that are resistant to failures, upgrades, and updates. The product is currently in developer preview.
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Startup Fermyon Releases Spin 1.0 for WebAssembly Serverless Applications
Fermyon recently announced Spin 1.0, an open-source developer tool and framework for developing serverless applications with WebAssembly (Wasm).
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Docker+Wasm Reaches Technical Preview 2, Includes Three New Runtime Engines
Docker has announced the second technical preview of Docker+Wasm, aiming to make it easier to run Wasm workloads and extending runtime support by including Fermyon's spin, Deislabs' slight, and Bytecode Alliance's wasmtime runtime engines.
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Containerd Adds Support for a New Container Type: Wasm Containers
The runwasi project, written in Rust, became an official contained project, which enables containerd to support a new container type: Wasm (or WebAssembly) containers.
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Fermyon Built a WebAssembly Cloud to Push Serverless Microservices Beyond Containers
At KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2022, Fermyon launched its microservice-oriented platform for WebAssembly apps, called Fermyon Cloud, which is now available in open beta.
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Developer Tooling for Cloud-Native Wasm Is Going Mainstream
The focus of Cloud Native Wasm Day at KubeCon 2022 in Detroit is developer tooling for server-side WebAssembly.
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Docker Launched WebAssembly Support
In the Cloud Native Wasm day event at KubeCon NA 2022, Docker announced Docker+Wasm technical preview in partnership with CNCF’s Wasm runtime WasmEdge. With a single command, docker compose up, Docker developers can instantly build, share, and run a complete Wasm application.