2 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes, ios, artificial-intelligence

With distributed application runtimes like wasmCloud (a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project donated by Cosmonic this summer), we see WebAssembly appearing on the server and the edge, embedded into platforms like Envoy as an extendible platform and a direct cloud native orchestration target via projects like Krustlet, which was recently accepted into the CNCF Sandbox. The challenges hindering distributed application development, deployment and maintenance have given rise to a new paradigm in which WebAssembly plays a prominent role in the future of cloud native distributed computing.

It was initially incubated inside the Mozilla skunkworks and is now under the stewardship of the Bytecode Alliance as a complement for JavaScript in web browsers, standalone, and cloud native Wasm.

We find applications that are hosted on top of Kubernetes in containers, which are built and distributed with a specific OS and CPU architecture in mind.

The diversity of system architecture, diversity in application architecture, distributed security, offline use, and machine learning deployed to the edge are continuing to drive the rise of distributed computing.