Runtime abstractions
Episode Summary
Danielle Lancashire is here to tell us how Fermyon cloud is built on top of nomad and EC2 and how they put it in a box with Kubernetes and WebAssembly.
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Featuring:Danielle Lancashire – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJustin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInAutumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes:WTA: What The Acronym
ASM - Assembly
WASM - WebAssembly. Came from asm.js from Mozilla
AOT - ahead of time compilation
JIT - just in time compilation
WASI - WebAssembly system interface. Types: io, clocks, random, filesystem, sockets, cli, http
WIT - WebAssembly Interface Type
Wasmer - by wasmer company
WAPM - WebAssembly Package Manager
Wasmtime - Bytecode alliance (amazon, cisco, arm, docker, intel microsoft)
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