Serverless Platforms and WASM with Connor Hicks - DevOps 134

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Connor Hicks, founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly.  They discuss how WebAssembly works, running WASM on the “edge” network, Suborbital’s capabilities, and everything in-between.

In this episode…

• WebAssembly on the server
• The “edge” and edge computing
• Security, performance, portability
• WASM in the cloud limitations
• Virtualized sandboxes
• Alternatives to edge computing
• Writing in other languages 
• What is the learning curve of the security model?
• Suborbital’s capabilities and language support 

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
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Links

• LinkedIn: Connor Hicks

Picks

• Connor- Arm VMs on Compute | Compute Engine Documentation | Google Cloud
• Jonathan– Boldly Go
• Jonathan– 14-inch IPS HD computer monitor
• Will– Crypto Steel Wallet

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