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

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Joel Moses | LinkedIn | @Joel_Moses 
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WebAssembly System or Standard Interface – Ep 3 – WebAssembly Unleashed

In this episode our hosts are joined by Fastly’s Luke Wagner to discuss WebAssembly, async, and streams. Listen in to learn about the history and evolution of ASMJS, find out if sync and async functions will split WebAssembly, get a rundown on the concept of backpressure, and hear discussion regarding Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA (who you might get to hear from soon, so subscribe for future episodes 😉 ).

Chapters:
00:37 – Meet the hosts and community updates
3:15 – Special guest: Luke Wagner
3:49 – This history and evolution of ASMJS
9:15 – Async and Streams in WebAssembly
10:27 – How async might work in the component model
17:37 – The concept of back pressure
19:08 – Stages of async
21:41 – Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA
26:51 – Fastly’s Compute Management and WebAssembly
29:59 – Closing remarks and future excitement

Dig into the Wasm.IO session recordings we mentioned:

A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model by Luke Wagner @ Wasm I/O 24 - https://youtu.be/y3x4-nQeXxc?si=3XGqdqa9W3WjXSzl

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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/

WebAssembly Async and Streams – Ep 8 – WebAssembly Unleashed

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