Web Assembler

Summary:

What is WebAssembly? Guest speaker Kevin Hoffman, CTO of Cosmonic shares what WebAssembly is, why it exists, and what kind of things you can do with it.

Notes:

00:00:16 Introduction

00:00:52 Cosmonic during COVID

00:02:45 Kevin Hoffman’s career and Cosmonic’s begginings

00:12:39 WebAssembly integrations

00:16:20 What is WebAssembly?

00:27:30 The developer experience

00:30:30 WebAssembly, JSON, and other object interactions

00:36:35 Rollbar

00:41:08 Compiler linking

00:49:27 wasmCloud

00:54:21 Decoupling clouds

01:01:51 Cosmonic fostering wasmCloud/WebAssembly

01:03:28 Cosmonic as a company

01:09:33 Opportunities at Cosmonic

01:13:03 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Companies:

• Cosmonic
• Website: https://cosmonic.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/cosmonic
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cosmonic-corp/

People:

• Kevin Hoffman, Chief Technology Officer at Cosmonic
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinHoffman
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%F0%9F%A6%80-kevin-hoffman-9252669/

Sponsor:

• Rollbar
• Website: https://rollbar.com/
• Freebies: https://try.rollbar.com/pt/

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