Serverless Platforms and WASM with Connor Hicks - DevOps 134

Adventures in DevOps

Today on the show, Jonathan and Will talk with Connor Hicks, founder of Suborbital, a serverless platform powered by WebAssembly. They discuss how WebAssembly works, running WASM on the “edge” network, Suborbital’s capabilities, and everything in-between.
In this episode…

• WebAssembly on the server
• The “edge” and edge computing
• Security, performance, portability
• WASM in the cloud limitations
• Virtualized sandboxes
• Alternatives to edge computing
• Writing in other languages
• What is the learning curve of the security model?
• Suborbital’s capabilities and language support