WebAssembly (Wasm) is driving a new wave of cloud computing, and platforms like Kubernetes and Docker are evolving to take advantage.
Virtual Machines were the first wave, containers were the second, and Wasm is the third. Each wave has enabled smaller, faster, and more portable applications that can go places and do things the previous waves couldn’t.
Figure 9.1
The chapter is divided as follows:
Wasm Primer
Understanding Wasm on Kubernetes
Hands-on with Wasm on Kubernetes
A quick word on terminology.
The terms WebAssembly and Wasm mean the same thing, and we’ll use them interchangeably. In fact, Wasm is short ...
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