In this episode our hosts are joined by Bailey Hayes, CTO of Cosmonic, and Pat Hickey, Principal Engineer at Fastly, to discuss WASI—WebAssembly System (or Standard depending on who you ask) Interface. Listen in to learn more about why WASI is important, what all the “previews” are, whether or not the component model is done, plus so much more!

Chapters:
1:25 – AI and WASM in Edge locations
4:03 – Is it WebAssembly System of Standard Interface?
6:10 – What is WASI and why is it important?
8:41 – What is preview 0, 1, 2, etc.?
10:54 – Is the component model done?
11:35 – Preview 2 vote
13:33 – WASI proposals
17:06 – Features of preview 2
23:21 – Server and client side webassembly
27:06 – J-co project
27:54 – How to get involved
28:33 – Bytecode Alliance guest languages

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
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Meet Your Hosts:

Joel Moses | LinkedIn | @Joel_Moses 
Oscar Spencer | X | LinkedIn
Matthew Yacobucci | LinkedIn

WebAssembly System or Standard Interface – Ep 3 – WebAssembly Unleashed

Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed with hosts Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci. Join us to discover who’s recently experienced impressive performance improvements using WebAssembly, how maple whiskey is related to Wasm runtimes, and what is the process of innovation.  This month our special guest, Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon, shares his incredible journey through the tech industry, his insights on WebAssembly's potential to revolutionize cloud computing, and the innovative work Fermyon is doing with Spin. Explore the evolution from startup to large-scale enterprise and gain valuable perspectives on community building and technological advancements.
  
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:49 Firefox's WebAssembly Performance Boost: https://www.howtogeek.com/firefox-75x-faster-running-webassembly/
01:59 Excitement for Upcoming Community Group Events
02:19 Interview with Matt Butcher: Background and Fermyon
05:22 The Birth of WebAssembly at Microsoft
10:01 Wasm Runtime From Browser to Server 
16:38 Deis Labs Projects and the Pattern of Innovation 
20:04 Failed Projects and Lessons Learned
22:04 Career Journey: From Hewlett Packard to Fermyon
22:21 The Vision Behind Fermyon
24:11 WebAssembly and Cloud Efficiency
27:39 The Birth of Fermyon
31:26 Community Building and Challenges
39:27 What led to Spin?
43:05 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Episode 5 w/Gilad Bracha: https://youtu.be/BQjTShpa8VM?si=DMDyh5U--BaQ_FGE

For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports
  
Meet Your Hosts:
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/

Turning Wasm Research Passions into a Business – Ep 12 – WebAssembly Unleashed

Join Joel Moses, Oscar Spencer, and Matt Yacobucci as they discuss the latest news and recent developments in WebAssembly, such as Zig 0.140 and projects like running Linux inside a PDF file. This episode features special guest Nick Fitzgerald, a notable contributor to WasmTime and CraneLift, who explains the concept of garbage collection in programming. The discussion covers  garbage collection in the context of WebAssembly, diving into algorithms, their implications, and challenges in implementation. They also touch upon the future of WebAssembly in embedded systems and the broader applications of these technologies in various programming languages like Java and Python. Don't miss this engaging and informative episode!
	
Chapters: 
00:00 Welcome to WebAssembly Unleashed
00:57 What's interesting this week in WebAssembly? 
02:12 Linux PDF: A WebAssembly Feat
03:29 Understanding Garbage Collection with guest Nick Fitzgerald
05:20 Reference Counting vs Tracing Garbage Collection
	A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection paper: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-bacon.pdf
7:22 What's driving the push to get GC into WebAssembly right now?
10:25 What makes Garbage Collection implementation so difficult?
12:09 Challenges in Garbage Collection Implementation
15:19 Are you bound by the language runtime GC or by the Wasm runtime?
19:32 Challenges in Type Systems Implementation
22:59 Object-Oriented Hierarchies and Python
24:34 Garbage Collection Proposal Insights
31:35 Will the end users have extra work?
32:50 Can GC help with Ahead of time Compiling?
35:11 Fuzz Testing and Bug Fixing
36:05 Custom Page Size Proposal
38:03 Future of Garbage Collection Algorithms
	
Did you miss the WebAssembly Unleashed episode with Gilad Bracha? Check it out here:
What WebAssembly can learn from JAVA’s history | Ep5 | WebAssembly Unleashed https://youtu.be/BQjTShpa8VM?si=S4sHWZeRqVIbCdn_
	
For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: 
Blogs -  https://www.f5.com/company/octo
Reports -  https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports
	
Meet Your Hosts: 
Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/users/joel_moses/398372 
Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/ 
Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/


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