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S. M. JainWebAssembly for Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7496-5_6

6. Wasm Web Interface

Shashank Mohan Jain1  
(1)
Bangalore, India
 

In previous chapters, you learned how to use the stand-alone mode of your programs to launch the Wasm module and invoke functions on it from the host.

This chapter takes you through the journey of taking a Wasm module and exposing it over an HTTP-based interface, which means that the Wasm module is launched on the arrival of an HTTP request. Wasm is a great candidate for cloud computing because each Wasm module is a small sandbox of code. You can run multitenant code on the same Linux process and achieve a good amount of ...

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