WebAssembly Async and Streams – Ep 8 – WebAssembly Unleashed

In this episode our hosts are joined by Fastly’s Luke Wagner to discuss WebAssembly, async, and streams. Listen in to learn about the history and evolution of ASMJS, find out if sync and async functions will split WebAssembly, get a rundown on the concept of backpressure, and hear discussion regarding Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA (who you might get to hear from soon, so subscribe for future episodes 😉 ). Chapters: 00:37 – Meet the hosts and community updates 3:15 – Special guest: Luke Wagner 3:49 – This history and evolution of ASMJS 9:15 – Async and Streams in WebAssembly 10:27 – How async might work in the component model 17:37 – The concept of back pressure 19:08 – Stages of async 21:41 – Joel Dice’s project ISYSWASFA 26:51 – Fastly’s Compute Management and WebAssembly 29:59 – Closing remarks and future excitement Dig into the Wasm.IO session recordings we mentioned: A stream of consciousness on the future of async in the Component Model by Luke Wagner @ Wasm I/O 24 - https://youtu.be/y3x4-nQeXxc?si=3XGqdqa9W3WjXSzl For more from F5's Office of the CTO visit the following sites: Blogs - https://www.f5.com/company/octo Reports - https://www.f5.com/services/resources/reports Meet Your Hosts: Joel Moses | https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelmoses/ | https://community.f5.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/398372 Oscar Spencer | https://twitter.com/oscar_spen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/oscarspen/ Matthew Yacobucci | https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-yacobucci-323b4b2/