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Kevin Hoffman (@KevinHoffman), CTO at @Cosmonic_com), wasmCloud creator) talks about WebAssembly and wasmCloud, and how this new development paradigm can simplify application development.SHOW: 559
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SHOW NOTES:
- Cosmonic) (homepage)
- Webassembly) (homepage)
- wasmCloud) (homepage)
- Getting started with wasmCloud)
- The Webassembly stack (vs. containers, VMs))
- Building a Containerless Future with WebAssembly)
- From Napkin to the Cloud - A Webassembly Journey)
- Programming Webassembly with Rust) (Kevin Hoffman, new book)
**Topic 1 - **Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to create wasmCloud.
**Topic 2 - **Let’s begin by talking about Webassembly. What is it (a language, a framework??), and what problems does it solve for developers?
**Topic 3 - **Let’s talk about wasmCloud. Once you’ve built something leveraging Webassembly, how does it interact with wasmCloud?
**Topic 4 - **Everything in application development tends to be a progression from something prior. How did Webassembly evolve? Docker’s Solomon Hykes said that if wasm+wasi existed) 7yrs ago, he never would have created Docker.
**Topic 5 - **Yesterday was WASM Day at Cloud Native Con. What were some of the highlights and focus areas?
**Topic 6 - **What are some of the early uses and usage patterns of Webassembly?
**Topic 7 - **What are some of the ways to get started with Webassembly and wasmCloud?
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