Wasm Beyond the Browser: Use Cases at Scale - Colin Murphy & Sean Isom, Adobe
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 19/05/2022

Wasm Beyond the Browser: Use Cases at Scale - Colin Murphy & Sean Isom, Adobe

Adobe makes use of Wasm in its flagship web browser-based products including Photoshop, Lightroom, and Acrobat. This past year it has explored potential use cases for Wasm in edge compute and in the datacenter with wasmCloud. Of particular interest were the potential performance, cost, security, and compliance benefits. Wasm and WASI have many potential advantages over Docker and standard web frameworks in these areas, but what needs to be done to realize those benefits at Adobe? This presentation begins with a summary of Adobe's current use cases, including the toolchains employed and major implementation challenges. It then proceeds to an exploration of CDN edge compute and Wasm/WASI platforms, compelling application and platform features for Adobe, and a demonstration of proofs of concept. It concludes with future looking platform requirements and how Adobe expects to take advantage of this technology at scale moving forward.