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WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm, a contraction of “WebAssembly”, not an acronym, hence not using all-caps) is a safe, portable, low-level code format designed for efficient execution and compact representation. An assembly is a group of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose. In this show with the whimsical name WasmAssembly (get it?), Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, chats with experts from the community about the past, present, and future developmen ...
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Enabling in-browser scientific computing with Wasm: David Kircos of Quadratic
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On this WasmAssembly podcast episode, host Thomas Steiner speaks with David Kircos from Quadratic. They discuss how Quadratic's spreadsheet utilizes WebAssembly to enable scientific computing directly in the browser, leveraging tools like Pyodide, pandas, and numpy. The conversation also covers practical challenges such as bundling large-scale Wasm…
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Wasm on feature phones with Cloud Phone's Thomas Barrasso
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Feature phones? Yes, they still make them. And they run Wasm! In this WasmAssembly podcast, Thomas Steiner hosts Thomas Barrasso from CloudMosa to talk about the Cloud Phone platform and what it takes to run WebAssembly on tiny feature phones by streaming Web apps from a remote server that runs Chromium. Resources: Thomas Barrasso on LinkedIn → htt…
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In this WasmAssembly podcast episode, Sean Isom and Mendy Berger from renderlet join host Thomas Steiner. Discover renderlet, a WebAssembly framework for writing graphics code that runs on any platform. Resources: Mendy Berger on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/4b1y205 Sean Isom on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/4hyO8Rb Renderlet → https://goo.gle/3QsfjRy r…
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Protecting apps with Arcjet through WebAssembly
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WebAssembly is known for its speed and security, but can it be applied to enhance application security as a whole? Join Arcjet's CEO David Mytton and host Thomas Steiner on WasmAssembly as they delve into Arcjet’s innovative use of Wasm for crucial security functions like bot detection, rate limiting, and data redaction, providing developers with a…
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Taking Fermyon's Spin for a spin with Thorsten Hans
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Join Thomas Steiner as he chats with Thorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, about the exciting world of WebAssembly serverless functions and microservices with the Spin framework. Discover how Spin uses WebAssembly for lightning-fast cold starts and great portability, and explore the advantages of building microservice applications with S…
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Squishy Wasm apps using Extism with Dylibso's Steve Manuel - WasmAssembly
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Join host Thomas Steiner and Steve Manuel from Dylibso as they dive deep into the world of "squishy" Wasm applications. Steve discusses Dylibso's mission to make all software squishy, using Wasm to unlock flexibility and extensibility in software development. The episode explores Dylibso's projects like Extism and Chicory, and how Extism is being u…
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A deep dive into WebAssembly with Thomas Nattestad - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, WasmAssembly host, Thomas Steiner, chats with Thomas Nattestad, Product Manager on the Google Chrome team. Learn about Chrome's investment in WebAssembly, WebAssembly caching and if there's a solution for cross-origin caching, canvas-rendered apps, and Thomas' take on WebAssembly DOM access and whether WebAssembly will replace Java…
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Special episode on the June meeting of the WebAssembly Community Group - WasmAssembly
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This is a special episode of the WasmAssembly podcast, recorded at the June face-to-face meeting of the WebAssembly community group that took place at the WebAssembly Research Center of the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thomas Steiner was there for two days, day zero, a pre-event in the form of an academic research day, an…
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Exploring the Bytecode Alliance with Cosmonic's Bailey Hayes - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, your host Thomas Steiner chats with Cosmonic's CTO and Bytecode Alliance technical steering committee and board member, Bailey Hayes, about the exciting world of WebAssembly at her company, and specifically at the Bytecode Alliance. After exploring how Cosmonic makes use of WASI for their wasmCloud product, they get into details ab…
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A promising feature: JavaScript Promise Integration with Francis McCabe - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, Thomas Steiner chats with Francis McCabe from Google, who's the champion of the JavaScript Promise Integration and the Stack Switching proposals. They go from talking about synchronous assumptions in code over to discussing the JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) proposal and how to use it in practice, its performance implication…
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String built-ins with Mozilla's Ryan Hunt - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Mozilla's Ryan Hunt, who's the champion of the string built-ins proposal. They first discuss Ryan's way into Mozilla and his role in the SpiderMonkey team, and then dive deep into the string built-ins proposal and some challenges and rabbit holes with it. Resources: Ryan Hunt on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/…
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The WASI Revolution: Luke Wagner on WebAssembly's Past, Present, and Future - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, Thomas Steiner interviews Luke Wagner, who works at Fastly. You’ll hear them chat about Luke’s time at Mozilla, how he remembers the Wasm launch, the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the component model, his thoughts on where WebAssembly’s future lies, and much more. Resources: Luke Wagner's Wasm announcement blog post for M…
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CG, WG, W3C, Deepti—Wasm standardization with Deepti Gandluri - WasmAssembly
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In this episode, Tom interviews Deepti Gandluri, the Chair of the WebAssembly Community Group at the W3C. You will hear about the difference between the W3C WebAssembly Community Group and Working Group, how Wasm is standardized, how Deepti got into WebAssembly, and the challenges the WebAssembly team at Google faces being part of the Chrome team. …
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From asm.js to Wasm with Emscripten creator Alon Zakai - WasmAssembly
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Learn about some early WebAssembly history from one of the co-creators of Wasm, Alon Zakai! Follow along how Alon explains how we came from Native Client to asm.js and then finally to WebAssembly, and explore some interesting historical and present day sidetracks on the way. Resources: Alon Zakai: Homepage → https://goo.gle/3vVaHgi / (has links to …
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