About this episode
Liam Crilly, Senior Director of Product Management at NGINX, discussed the potential of WebAssembly (Wasm) during this recording at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao, Spain. With over three decades of experience, Crilly highlighted WebAssembly's promise of universal portability, allowing developers to build once and run anywhere across a network of devices.
While Wasm is more mature on the client side in browsers, its deployment on the server side is less developed, lacking sufficient runtimes and toolchains. Crilly noted that WebAssembly acts as a powerful compiler target, enabling the generation of well-optimized instruction set code. Despite the need for a virtual machine, WebAssembly's abstraction layer eliminates hardware-specific concerns, providing near-native compute performance through additional layers of optimization.
Learn more from The New Stack about WebAssembly and NGINX:
WebAssembly Overview, News and Trends
Why WebAssembly Will Disrupt the Operating System
Get every episode summarized
Each time The New Stack Podcast publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from The New Stack Podcast
How Microsoft is governing thousands of Kubernetes clusters without manual inter...
The New Stack Podcast
Why long-running AI agents break on HTTP and how Ably is fixing it
The New Stack Podcast
Why the Linux Foundation adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert
The New Stack Podcast
Fresh data has us asking, does AI demand Kubernetes?
The New Stack Podcast