Microservices and WebAssembly: Current State and Future Potential

Explore the current state of Web Assembly (WASM) in microservices architecture through this informative conference talk. Delve into the experiences of Will Christensen from Defense Unicorns and Kingdon Barrett from Weaveworks as they share their journey of building a simple project using WASM for microservices. Learn about the benefits of WASM in browsers and apps, including performance gains, type safety, reduced size, and polyglot support. Discover the challenges and stumbling blocks encountered when applying WASM to microservices, and gain insights into why it may not yet be fully mature for this use case. Understand the vision for a reusable codebase and the potential future of WASM in the service space. Gain valuable knowledge about the evolving landscape of polyglot cooperative, CPU agnostic, cloud native, Kubernetes native, and GitOps inclusive solutions. Leave with a balanced perspective on the current limitations and exciting prospects of WASM in microservices architecture.