Wasm in the Wild West: A Practical Application Tale

Almost one year ago, our team released Krustlet, a Kubernetes Kubelet implementation for running WebAssembly modules in the cloud. Since then, we’ve spent plenty of time out on the frontier, implementing full Kubernetes functionality for Wasm as well as other experiments like WAGI. Along the way, we’ve seen all the rough edges and gaps when using Wasm in the cloud. Using these projects as a practical backdrop, we’ll learn all about the possibilities afforded by this exciting new technology and why we think it will be a major component of application development in the cloud. We will also discuss the lessons we’ve learned and the remaining gaps to be filled in order for Wasm to become more mainstream.