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What’s The State of WASI?

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Fermyon @fermyon.com · May 14

New on the blog today: @technosophos.bsky.social writes about the latest WASI developments

www.fermyon.com/blog/whats-t...

Learn about the current state of the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) standard, and the upcoming WASIp3 release

Build Edge Native Apps With WebAssembly

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · May 7

Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 7

I wrote an article at @thenewstack.io about how Wasm is proving to be the best compute platform for edge computing.

thenewstack.io/build-edge-n...

Build Edge Native Apps With WebAssembly

Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

thenewstack.io

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 7

Sometimes I get frustrated by unchallenged dogma.

www.fermyon.com/blog/end-obs...

End the Obsession with Servers

Why continue in the dogma that every microservice needs a full-on socket server? Why shoulder more burden, both security-wise and operationally, than we need to? Simplicity is a virtue. We should embr...

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 3

Yup, you are right. I just got all three working great on Apple Calendar, both desktop and iPhone! Thanks.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 3

I've been playing a new video game today. It's called, "Try to sync your work Office, personal iCloud, and family Google calendars." It's pretty hard. So far after several hours I am still failing level 1.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

I vaguely remember going to one in Santa Clara or San Jose or something. But only once or twice. The Presidio office was pretty, but I think they closed it soon after the Healtheon acquisition.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

Technically I was in Presidio, but since they let us travel whenever, I spent a lot of time at PDX.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

I really enjoyed this one. That was such a formative time for me, and hearing @richburroughs.dev talk about it just made me smile.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

Rich mentions how we all worked on like a handful of Solaris boxes. Development there was largely done by telneting (and later SSHing) into a development server and working on the code using either vim or emacs (or nano).

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

I also have this vague memory of an early Facebook group called "WebMD Said I'm Going To Die" that was basically all of the funny ways you could get from the symptom checker to a fatal diagnosis.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

I think the name of the company that WebMD merged with was Healtheon. (So many mergers and acquisitions happened that I don't remember which one was the one that Rich is talking about here.)

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

WebRN was like a mini-portal at WebMD that was designed specifically for nurses. I don't think it survived even to the end of 2000.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

The Microsoft thing that Rich talks about is the reason why WebMD's ontological search engine (a cool early AI thing) never saw the light of day, because we wrote it all in Java and it could not be ported to IIS.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

The web server that we ran there (the one Rich mentions) was written by none other than Lee Boynton, one of the original creators of Java. Lee wrote the first version of the site in Python, but it wasn't scalable enough at that time, so we all reimplemented it in Java.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

This is wild! I was also at WebMD at the same time (working on their ontology-powered search engine, then on WebRN). And hearing Rich talk about it reminds me of what a ride it was.

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · May 2

BTW if you work in computing and are curious about what operating a big site was like back then, I was a guest on an episode of the Ship It podcast where I talked to @justingarrison.com and @withenoughcoffee.com about it.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 2

Discoveries Egyptian Imports launched a new website today. They work directly with Egyptian artisan families.

egyptianimports.com

Create your own Personalized Egyptian Cartouche Necklace in Silver or Gold. Made in Egypt. Egyptian jewelry, Egyptian statues, Museum Quality Collectibles, and educational gifts.

egyptianimports.com

Spin JS/TS Router Showdown: Hono vs Itty vs Manual Routing

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · May 1

Hono, Itty, and manual routing in Spin JS/TS apps

www.fermyon.com/blog/spin-js...

Compare the performance of Hono, Itty Router, and manual routing in JavaScript/TypeScript Spin apps. See how routing choices impact RPS, latency, and why Rust delivers the fastest Spin APIs.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · Apr 27

Have you looked at the WASI Component Model? That may be what you’re looking for.

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · Apr 27

Yes. A lot of people. Like tens, if not hundreds, of thousands. It’s in cars, IoT devices, etc. SpinKube has like 80k downloads, and Soin is above half a million. We run around 4K apps in Fermyon Cloud. While not all of those are in prod, a lot are and have been for years.

Observing Spin Apps with OpenTelemetry and the .NET Aspire Dashboard

Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · Apr 24

I agree. The entire .NET ecosystem is actually on the avant-garde of WebAssembly.

In addition to the Blazor work, the .NET team has done some awesome stuff. Here, for example, is how we used Aspire.

www.fermyon.com/blog/observi...

Learn how to observe your Spin apps using the otel plugin for Spin and the .NET Aspire Dashboard.

Routing in Spin Apps with Hono

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Radu Matei @radu-matei.com · Apr 23

@thorstenhans.bsky.social walks through using @hono.dev with Spin to build serverless #Wasm apps, now with a new template.

Hono has been really cool to build with!

www.fermyon.com/blog/hono-ro...

Build full-fledged HTTP APIs with the Hono Router with Spin's new SDK and TypeScript