WebAssembly (Wasm) continues to be a theme at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon and CloudNativeCon at Detroit 24-28 Oct 2022. This report covers my experience highlights attending KubeCon.

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Summary

WebAssembly (Wasm) continued to be a theme at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon and CloudNativeCon at Detroit, held October 24–28, 2022, with a one day break out event—Wasm Day—where Docker released support for Wasm, and Cosmonic (which donated wasmCloud to the CNCF), announced receiving $8.5m in seed funding. CNCF has also built on the success of the inaugural CTO Summit in KubeCon Valencia 2022 to repeat the track in Detroit 2022. This report covers my highlights of attending KubeCon Detroit.

Growing Wasm

Wasm’s rise was discussed by the CNCF committee at the analyst roundtable, and its perception as a potential next wave in computing. At the co-located “Wasm Day” event, I sat on the panel discussion titled “WebAssembly – Outside In” and a question was raised as to how Wasm will fare over alternative technologies, such as microVMs, and my response was to point out that Wasm is an open source World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, whereas microVMs are proprietary products. As a W3C standard, it is already supported on all the major browsers, and companies such as Cosmonic (which donated wasmCloud to the CNCF), Fermyon, and Suborbital are taking Wasm outside the browser to the server and to the edge. There are still features and developer tooling that need to be created to make Wasm enterprise-ready, but given the VC interest, Omdia expects Wasm to grow substantially.

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