Charting a Wasm Landscape

The video features an introduction of Chris Aniszczyk, the CTO at CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and a VP at the Linux Foundation, who speaks about charting a WebAssembly (Wasm) landscape at the first WasmCon. Here’s a summary of key points from the video: - Chris compares the current state of Wasm to the early days of cloud-native containers, mentioning the innovation and competition among multiple runtimes and specs. - Wasm Adoption and Innovation: He mentions that Wasm is in the early adopter phase, with CNCF projects like Kubernetes and Istio already utilizing WebAssembly for plugin systems and support for multiple languages. He also mentions the existence of runtimes for running containers in - Kubernetes using WebAssembly. Community Engagement and Corporate Adoption: Chris talks about engaging with the community and discovering early adopters of Wasm like BBC, Disney, Amazon, Bosch, and Goldman Sachs across various sectors. - Startup Innovation and Consolidation: He mentions a cycle of startup innovation and consolidation in the Wasm ecosystem, referencing the acquisition of Suborbital by F5 as an example. - Wasm Landscape: Announcement of a new Wasm landscape initiative to track and categorize various projects, runtimes, languages, and platforms in the Wasm ecosystem. The talk provides an overview of the current state of the WebAssembly ecosystem, its comparison to early cloud-native days, and the initiatives by CNCF to foster community engagement and provide resources for better understanding and adoption of WebAssembly. PUBLICATION PERMISSIONS: Original video was published with the Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Link: