With
our world being increasingly driven by apps and the microservices that support
them, adoption of WebAssembly (Wasm) continues to accelerate. WebAssembly is a
stack-based virtual machine that can greatly improve the performance and
capabilities of websites and, despite the name, nearly any other kind of
non-web platform you can imagine.
Besides
making browsers much more powerful, this technology may extend beyond the scope
of mere websites. It isn't just for browsers; Wasm is currently being used in
cloud, mobile, low-level networking, and edge-based environments.
This
is why The Linux Foundation is today releasing a new, free, online training
course, WebAssembly Actors: From
Cloud to Edge (LFD134x). The course explores the portability, efficiency, and security of
WebAssembly modules and how to leverage a number of open source frameworks to
create distributed and seamlessly connected actors that can be deployed in a
browser, on a laptop, in the cloud, on a Raspberry Pi, or practically anywhere.
This
course is designed for developers who have built or are building microservices
and have experienced a high degree of friction in cloud native application development.
Developers looking to embrace the simplicity of Functions as a Service (FaaS)
without the overhead of cloud providers or sacrificing the ability to
experiment and test locally and in any other environment will gain significant
value from this course.
Kevin
Hoffman, the author of "Programming WebAssembly with Rust", "Cloud Native Go",
and over a dozen books on various aspects of the .NET Framework, created this
course. He has presented at a number of conferences and events over the past 2
years on WebAssembly, and at dozens of previous conferences on everything from
.NET to Spring Boot to Redis and even at Apple's WWDC.
The
course is free to audit on edX.org for seven weeks, or a verified certification
of completion is available for a fee, which includes a full year of course
access. Enroll today and start improving your
cloud native application development with Wasm!