What up, WASI? @ Docker

We have a first-time sponsor, Docker! This month's theme is WASI, or the WebAssembly System Interface standardization effort. You can read more about it in Lin Clark's announcement post: https://mzl.la/2PrgAbp. We will have two talks on WASI from Dan Gohman and co-presenters Tõnis Tiigi & Tibor Vass.

The Meetup will be recorded and videos will be linked here after the event.

Agenda:

6:00pm - Doors open
6:15-7:00pm - WebAssembly Beyond the Browser: WASI, Dan Gohman
7:15-8:00pm - Docker + WebAssembly, Tõnis Tiigi & Tibor Vass

About the talks:

WebAssembly Beyond the Browser: WASI

WASI is the WebAssembly System Interface, a VM-independent API spec providing sandboxed and portable I/O interfaces for WebAssembly. Dan will talk about the background and motivation for WASI, the capability-based security model, and the overall personality of the platform. He'll cover can do with WASI today, as well as what we envision enabling you to do in the future.

Docker + WebAssembly

In this talk Tibor and Tõnis will present how they used Docker to set up a WASI toolchain, how people can do easy cross-compilation with platform-agnostic Dockerfiles, and distribute and run WebAssembly apps with existing Docker infrastructure.

About the speakers:

Dan Gohman is a Mozillian, a chair of the WASI standards body, and a developer on the Wasmtime project building a non-Web WebAssembly VM, the LLVM WebAssembly backend, the WASI sysroot, and the Cranelift Compiler.

Tõnis Tiigi is a software engineer at Docker and maintainer of Moby / Docker and started BuildKit, the next generation builder. He also brought multi-stage builds to Docker.

Tibor Vass and is a software engineer at Docker and maintainer of Moby / Docker and BuildKit. He's an early WebAssembly enthusiast.