Security

Presenters Luke Wagner Source WasmCon NA 2025 WebAssembly’s Component Model: Unpacking Efficiency, Security, and the Near-Zero Copy Dream 🚀 WebAssembly (Wasm) has long been the darling of the web, promising blazing-fast performance right in our browsers. But its potential extends far beyond the browser tab! Luke Wagner from Fastly recently took us on a deep dive into the exciting evolution of WebAssembly’s Component Model, tackling a crucial question: does this new paradigm introduce more data copying, or is it paving the way for less? Get ready to explore how Wasm is becoming a powerhouse for server-side applications, cloud-native environments, and so much more, all while keeping efficiency and security at its core. ...

Presenters Flynn Bailey Hayes Source WasmCon NA 2025 Unlocking the Power of WebAssembly with Linkerd: A Secure, Observable Future 🚀 Ever felt like your microservices were a bit too… exposed? You’re not alone! The modern cloud-native landscape, with its intricate web of services, demands robust security, unwavering reliability, and crystal-clear observability. And when you throw cutting-edge technologies like WebAssembly (Wasm) into the mix, things can get even more interesting. That’s exactly what we explored in a recent deep dive, focusing on the powerful synergy between Linkerd, the service mesh that just works, and WebAssembly (Wasm), specifically orchestrated by WasmCloud on Kubernetes. Forget writing complex networking code or wrestling with security configurations – this is about letting your applications do what they do best, while a battle-hardened service mesh handles the heavy lifting. ...

Presenters Aurélie Vache Source KyvernoCon NA 2025 Unlocking the Power of Open Source Policy in Kubernetes: A Journey from Curiosity to Control 🚀 Ever felt like Kubernetes policies are a bit of a black box? You’re not alone! Our speaker, a Developer Advocate at a European cloud provider specializing in cloud-native infrastructure as code and developer experience, loves to make complex tech accessible. And today, they’re taking us on an exciting journey into the world of open-source Kubernetes policy management. ...

Presenters Elizabeth Gilbert Source WasmCon NA 2025 Whamm: Unleashing the Power of Performant, Sandboxed Instrumentation ✨🚀 Ever felt the pain of fragmented tooling when trying to understand your code’s inner workings? You’re not alone! The world of instrumentation, crucial for everything from debugging to security, has historically been a tangled mess of language-specific solutions. But what if you could write a tool once and deploy it across a multitude of environments with comparable performance? Welcome to the revolutionary world of Whamm, an active research framework from Carnegie Mellon University that’s making this a reality! 🌐 ...

Presenters Saurabh Garg Dolis Sharma Source KyvernoCon NA 2025 Taming the AI/ML Compute Beast: Policy-Driven Orchestration with Metaflow & Kyverno 🚀 The world of AI and Machine Learning is exploding, and with it, the demand for massive, often unpredictable, compute resources. For platform engineers, wrangling these intense, long-running workloads in complex Kubernetes environments can feel like herding cats. Misconfigurations, a common headache, get amplified when hundreds of developers and multiple teams are involved. But what if we could bring order to this chaos with a bit of smart policy enforcement? That’s exactly what the latest insights from a recent tech conference reveal, highlighting the powerful synergy between Metaflow for workflow management and Kyverno for policy enforcement. 💡 ...