Episode 135 : WebAssembly Could Be The Key For Cloud Native Extensibility

For this week’s episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we ask
Levine about the excitement around WebAssembly, its use in the
Envoy proxy, and Solo.io’s new proposal for packaging WASM modules
in the Open Container Initiative format. TNS editorial and
marketing director Libby Clark hosts this episode, with the help of
TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab
Jackson. Although WebAssembly was created for bringing advanced
programming to the browser, Solo.io’s founder/CEO Idit Levine has
been a vocal proponent of using the portable fast open source
runtime to extend service meshes — citing Solo.io’s own work in
offering tools and services to support commercial service mesh
operations. In fact, WASM, as its also known, could be used to
bring extensibility across a wide variety of cloud native projects,
she argues.