WASI and the Cloud - A Game-Changing Duo for Cloud-Native Development

Explore the transformative potential of WebAssembly Components and the emerging WASI proposal, wasi-cloud, in cloud-native application development. Discover how these technologies address the challenges of cloud provider dependency, complex development processes, and integration issues in distributed and SaaS environments. Learn about the benefits of a portable, virtualized, cross-language, and platform-agnostic approach that enables developers to create adaptable applications for diverse environments. Witness a demonstration of a polyglot component built from multiple languages running on various platforms, including CNCF wasmCloud, showcasing the practical applications of these game-changing technologies in achieving stateless, local-and-prod parity, and fast startup applications.

WASI and the Cloud: A Game-Changing Duo - Bailey Hayes, Cosmonic & Jiaxiao Zhou, Microsoft