Achieving Durability and Reliability in Cloud Platforms with WebAssembly

This chapter explores how WebAssembly brings durability and reliability to commodity cloud platforms by providing a portable virtual machine for executing machine code reliably. It discusses the concept of durability in programming, the use of event sourcing and snapshotting, and the role of WebAssembly runtime in recreating program state during failures. The chapter also highlights the potential of WebAssembly to revolutionize cloud computing and discusses the Wasm component model and its impact on FFI across different programming languages.