Wasm NA - February 2023 Hybrid edition (ONLINE)

Our first in-person meetup this year will also be a hybrid one!

Want to attend in-person in San Francisco?
Please RSVP on the other listing at: https://www.meetup.com/wasmna/events/291366717/

Talks start at 5:30 PM.

Matt Butcher: Writing Serverless Functions with Spin

With its security sandbox, fast startup times, and broad language support, WebAssembly makes a great cloud computing runtime. And serverless functions (like Lambda) are a great candidate for Wasm. In this talk, I’ll start by looking at the cloud compute ecosystem. I’ll talk about the strenghts and weaknesses of VMs and containers, as well as the problems faced by the first generation of serverless. Then I’ll talk about the open source Spin tool and how it simplifies the process of writing serverless functions. We’ll finish by building, testing, and deploying a Spin app.

About Matt:

Matt Butcher is a founder of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he eats, sleeps, and breaths WebAssembly. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado.

Tom Ballinger: WebAssembly Bytecode from Scratch (and so can you!)

WebAssembly allows us to write logic in many languages, including my favorite language, WebAssembly bytecode. Don't yet have LEB128, ASCII, and all the WASM sections memorized? Don't worry, we'll learn the mnemonics together. Programming should be accessible to all, so it's good to eschew fancy tools like integrated development environments compilers and write code the way it was meant to be written, in hexadecimal.

About Tom:

Tom Ballinger is a software engineer at Convex. He's taught compiler and computer architecture courses and facilitated at the Recurse Center primarily by goading people into writing BitTorrent clients. His observed long-term interests include reactive programming and undo,
and is going to switch from vim to VSCode any day now.