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From YouTube: Closing Remarks - Liam Randall, Founder, Cosmonic & co-Founder, Wasmcloud

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Closing Remarks - Liam Randall, Founder, Cosmonic & co-Founder, Wasmcloud

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Okay, everyone. Thank you so much for coming to the cloud native lawson day, I'm going to wrap us up with some quick closing remarks and two calls to action. uh First, a gigantic. Thank you to our entire program committee, a ralph schwells from microsoft, kevin hoffman from capital, one colin eberhardt from scott logic, chris, a from cncf till from fastly and the bytecode alliance, jonathan berry from goliath, idiot levine from solo, ming, kyu, sun from intel and, above all else, elena vogel from cncf, without whose work today would not have been possible at all.

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A second huge thanks to our sponsors, our two diamond sponsors, cosmonacan tetre, our gold sponsor microsoft, azure and our community, sponsor the bytecode alliance, make sure you take a few minutes and check out buy code alliance for more information about some of the things that are going on in the community today.

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Now, if anything was clear today, it's clear that webassembly is in cloud native. We see web assembly running on top of uh cloud native apps. We see webassembly running inside of web cloud native apps and we see web assembly running all around uh cloud native apps as we think about um the huge variety of things that we saw uh presented today. You know there's this one thing that should just be absolutely clear and it's something that I'm completely convinced about, and it's that you know webassembly isn't just another evolution technology.

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It is simply the next revolution in technology, and we started out today with an opening remarks from ralph and chris, who did a great job, uh introducing us to what we were going to go through this morning, and I would like to point out that today's session included people from countries and cultures and communities all around the world. I know that I logged in at 3am, and there were others that were logging in in their afternoon or in their evening. This is really a global movement here.

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uh Next we had a wonderful keynote from lynn clark who not only laid out the importance of a uh some operating system interfaces, type interfaces that we need in order to help continue to move this revolution forward, but also laid the future vision for where we're going to be heading next with interface types and some of the other proposals that are being developed in an open and common way, kevin hoffman from capital, one talked a little bit about wasm cloud and taking uh his napkin sketches in his distributed application.

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Runtime uh then, we had michael juan talk about ai inference on the edge and talked about some of the incredible performance benefits, we're seeing by embedding and running web assembly and combining it with the latest in tensorflow and artificial intelligence in the browser and on the server side.

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Matt and taylor may have done what is my, maybe my most favorite themed presentation today in their wasm in the wild wild west, where they did a wonderful job, providing not only an overview of some of the great work. That's coming out of the open source group at microsoft, azure, but also laid out some of the major challenges that we have in our ecosystem. Some of the major opportunities we have to come together as a community.

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uh uh Then we had a wonderful uh sponsored keynote from uh uh takaya who talked about secure extensibility by web assembly, and I really love the language that they chose to use to bring today around secure and extendable uh and being embedded. It was a really well done presentation. I think they are really showing us some new opportunities for how we can use uh the technology.

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Then we had michael womback again with wasm as a service runtime, where uh he presented some of the incredible performance benefits uh that are that are possible and some of the research that second state has been leading in the area of um uh comparing runtime performance startup times and so forth. As much as I don't like the adverse language, I really appreciate the the real technical articulation of the benefits and the pros and cons that we have on the technology.

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Then we had our lightning talks and we started with uh quarantine talking about migrating from a javascript uh to webassembly.

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uh Then we had a great talk from connor hicks, who talked about atmo and his sufa design pattern and building web services with wasm.

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Then we had uh the byte assembly walmart presentation, which is the web assembly micro runtime, and I love that we've seen people talking about uh use cases on the biggest of hardware. uh Later uh uh in today we had andrew brown and ming cu from intel. Talking about um you know leveraging this technology on big iron, uh and here we have it running on the smallest, which I think really plays to the diverse. uh You know how diverse and what a real revolution this technology is.

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uh Then we had matt taylor, uh matt taylor, matt butcher and taylor thomas uh back again to talk about bindle, uh which is uh sort of a rethink about how we might package our applications and distribute them uh for next generation applications.

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Then we had robert talking about serverless wasm for compute intensive workloads, uh and he was doing some demos um around how you could leverage wasm to get these performance routines, and I think also did a really great job talking about how some of we have some of the new edge related companies are leveraging web assembly and how that might come into play in a truly cloud native world.

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uh Then andrew brown and ming cusan uh with their machine learning uh with waziyan, which is actually already committed uh as an optional plug-in in the wasm time uh uh host runtime that's available from uh fastly in the bytecode alliance. uh So this is something that you can go out and play with uh today.

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Then I did a quick overview around why? I really believe that web assembly is the future of distributed computing and I tried to lay out some of the. uh What does this really mean for us as a community and really tried to reach out to a diverse uh group of uh audience and speakers there?

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uh Finally, uh we closed up with a really well put together, presentation from shane and you've all around wasm filters for envoy, which was another great talk that really emphasized the embeddability and the plugability of webassembly as a as a technology, and I think today, in being on the program committee, one of the things that we really tried to do in putting today's content together was not really just was not just focus on the intersection of webassembly and cloud native, but try to focus on a broad range of technologies that exist across today's landscape, because it is clear that web assembly is running on in and around cloud native applications.

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Today, I and there should be a place for it when we think about what's next in the short term, I think you could throw out a lot of different answers to this. You could talk about the technical roadmap.

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You could talk about the innovations you can talk about the places that we're going to use that, but I really think that there's only one right answer to that question, and that is that community is next, because when we think about what we really need to be successful as a group, it's not just pulling together brilliant ideas and road maps and plans forward.

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We really need to uh make sure that we're building the content, the solutions, the comparisons, the white papers to arm not only engineers but managers and marketing and sales and customer success, and all of the other orgs that are going to come into a successful transition and adoption of the next uh of this next revolution in technology.

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As for what is immediately next, I would love to make sure and do a call out that there's actually one more activity today, sponsored by microsoft, azure uh the birds of a feather session for a cloud native web assembly landscape with ralph squillus, where we're going to try to sit down and chat through what might a web assembly landscape? uh Look like what would be the sort of key areas. Today alone, we saw a number of themes we saw a couple of, we saw a number of host runtimes mentioned.

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We saw a number of application runtimes mentioned. We saw multiple approaches to machine learning. We saw multiple orgs talking about embedding web assembly. What are the sort of characteristics of these things and we'll maybe try to take a first rough pass at sketching that out.

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You know, regardless of what you feel is next, and I I know, there's always the tendency to pit applications and uh transitions um off of each other to talk about why things are better.

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The one thing that really resonated with me today is that today, we're in this great situation where we find that cloud native and web assembly are both working well together, and I think that would be the theme and the overarching message that I would love for everybody to really embrace, as we think through the next year and the next few years of webassembly as a community is, is that, while webassembly as a technology may not be dependent upon, it is certainly compatible with the things that we're doing in the cloud native world, and it opens up new possibilities for what it even means to be cloud native.

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So thank you very much for your time. I really look forward to you joining us at the birds of a feather session sponsored by microsoft, azure, and I just want to say thank you to all the attendees, because really, at the end of the day, it's going to be as a community that we're successful have a wonderful day. Thank you.