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11:45 BST

Wasm Whiplash: WasmCloud's Wild Ride To Standards - Brooks Townsend, Cosmonic

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Everybody loves a standard. The CNCF contains many products and projects that integrate with well-defined standards—allowing them to focus on their own goals. See OpenTelemetry (OTEL) for example, the widely used standard for traces, logs and metrics and the second-most contributed to project in the CNCF (only behind Kubernetes).

In 2019, wasmCloud started as a hand-crafted WebAssembly (Wasm) application platform. We used our own IDL, codegen, and FFI protocol. Over the last five years we’ve broken down these proprietary bits one by one, rebuilding them around WASI 0.2 to become the incubating platform we are today.

This talk will use wasmCloud as a backdrop to explore innovative new standards in the cloud and Wasm-native spaces, and why they matter. You’ll learn why a platform built on standards leads to greater collaboration and the pitfalls of not using those standards based on what we learned from wasmCloud’s evolution towards being the best platform to run Wasm in production.

Speakers

Brooks Townsend

Senior Software Engineer, Cosmonic

Brooks is a Lead Software Engineer at Cosmonic, focusing on harnessing WebAssembly to alleviate the pains of modern software development. Brooks started his software development career with Critical Stack, a Kubernetes container orchestration platform that is now open source. He joined... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 11:45 - 12:15 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 7-9

Maintainer Track, wasmCloud