WebAssembly : The Component Model and Beyond

WebAssembly took the world by storm when it first came out, but it may seem like not much has happened since. That's not true, but one of the biggest developments to the platform has recently begun to be released. The WebAssembly Component model and its surrounding technologies will open up new opportunities to benefit from our safe, fast, and portable standards-based platform. It introduces us to a software composition model that goes well-beyond the component models of the past to include reusable, multi-lingual, asynchronous interactions inside and outside of the browser.

Come here how this and other developments will make WebAssembly more important and powerful than ever before.

We will cover:

WebAssembly Platform
WebAssembly Component Model
WebAssembly Interface Types (WIT)
Tooling to create, compose, and validate components
Generating language bindings for reuse
Capabilities-based Security models
Asynchronous Programming with WebAssembly Components
New and existing WebAssembly Component Worlds (Command line tools, HTTP-based and more)

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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