A more Efficient, Faster and Scalable Web with Fermyon | Episode #63
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What is WASM? Web Assembly is set to dominate the Serverless market and maybe even supersede Kubernetes for application deployment and management...
In this episode I talk with Matt Butcher, Co-Founder and CEO of Fermyon. Fermyon is revolutionizing cloud computing with their serverless #webassembly platform. Pioneering the next wave of cloud computing by simplifying the deployment and management of #serverless applications with WASM. Matt and I talk about the company's core product, Spin, and how it simplifies the deployment and management of Web Assembly applications, enabling developers to focus on the important aspects of their projects. WASM addresses some potential flaws in Kubernetes... security and ease of use.
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☑️ Technology and Technology Partners Mentioned: AWS, Amazon, Kubernetes, WASM, Web Assembly, GO, Rust, Python, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Terraform, HELM
☑️ Raw Talking Points:
- HELM
- Overview of Web Assembly and its importance in cloud computing
- Serverless techWASM addresses issues — such as security and ease-of-use
- WASM finally lets us move code between servers, clouds, and edge devices without involving developers
- WASM and platform ops? Who has ownership?
- WASM and application scalability, uptime? HA?
- WASM poses an existential threat to Docker, as well as to containers
- Good for Browser, Great for Cloud
- Spin: Fermyon's developer tool and its features
- Fermyon Cloud: A serverless platform for WebAssembly applications
- Fermyon's newly introduced platform (Platform One) runs on Nomad, Consul, and Vault
- Supported languages and compatibility
- Real-world applications and use cases
- Developer experience and community engagement
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| 0:00.0 | It's not replacing serverless. |
| 0:02.0 | It's kind of side by side with it. |
| 0:04.0 | You probably have noticed the term serverless is bubbling up again. |
| 0:08.0 | And the question is why. |
| 0:09.0 | Well, I think because now we actually sort of are starting to understand |
| 0:12.0 | what it means and where we think it can go. Hello and welcome to episode 63 of Great Things with Great Tech. |
| 0:28.8 | The podcast highlighting companies doing great things with great technology. |
| 0:32.5 | My name's Anthony Spiteria. |
| 0:34.1 | In this episode, we're talking to a software development company |
| 0:36.9 | that's revolutionizing |
| 0:38.3 | cloud computing with their serverless web assembly platform, pioneering the next wave of cloud |
| 0:43.5 | computing by simplifying the development and deployment of serverless applications. That company |
| 0:49.8 | is Fermion, and I'm speaking to co-founder and CEO Matt Butcher. Welcome to the show, Matt. |
| 0:56.3 | Thanks. Thanks. I'm super excited to be here. |
| 0:58.6 | Excellent. So before we talk about Wassam and everything that is pretty new to a lot of people |
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| 1:37.5 | Okay, with that, let's talk about, you know, Matt, your background and, you know, what led you to basically start a company |
| 1:47.5 | that is looking to change the way that I think applications basically live on the internet. |
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