Building WASM Powered Distributed Stream Platform - Sehyo Chang, InfinyOn
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 19/05/2022

Building WASM Powered Distributed Stream Platform - Sehyo Chang, InfinyOn

A modern data stack is critical for building data-driven organizations. Yet, technologies available today call for separation between data and compute results in a costly and inefficient data stack. A WASM-based in-line computation removes the barrier between data and computes, opening the door for new types of data stack that can deploy anywhere with hyper-efficiency. This talk will show how the Fluvio open-source project leveraged WASM technology to build a distributed stream platform. The session will discuss the unique challenges of integrating the SmartModule, a WASM-based module system, in a distributed data stack and its benefit in solving various use cases. Sehyo Chang is a creator of the Fluvio project and co-founder of InfinyOn. He has over 30 years of industry experience working on networking, distributed systems, microservices, and zero-trust security frameworks. Before InfinyOn, Sehyo was responsible for the service mesh architecture at NGINX, where he created nginMesh, an NGINX compatibility layer for Istio, and built RUST based module system for NGINX.