System Architecture and Design

Presenters Colin Murphy Mendy Berger Source WasmCon NA 2025 Unmasking the Truth: How the Content Authenticity Initiative is Fighting AI Deception 🛡️ In today’s digital landscape, where AI can conjure breathtaking images and videos in a blink, distinguishing reality from fabrication has become a monumental challenge. We’re living in an era where the line between genuine and AI-generated content is increasingly blurred, and the problem is only amplified when metadata – the breadcrumbs of information that tell us about an asset’s origin – gets stripped away during sharing. But fear not, intrepid digital explorers! The Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) is here to shine a light on the truth, armed with innovative technology and a commitment to integrity. 💡 ...

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 Prashant Ramhit Source WasmCon NA 2025 Bringing AI to the High Seas: Coral Restoration Gets a Kubernetes Boost! 🌊🤖 Ever wondered how cutting-edge technology can make a real-world impact on something as vital as coral reef restoration? Well, get ready to be inspired! Prashant from Mirantis recently shared a fascinating deep-dive into how they leveraged AI at the edge, powered by ONNX inference on K0S, to create an intelligent, self-sufficient monitoring system for a coral restoration project. It’s a story of innovation, cost-effectiveness, and the power of open-source solutions. ...

Presenters Thorsten Hans Karthik Ganeshram Source WasmCon NA 2025 Composable, Polyglot Magic: Unlocking Efficiency with Razi P3! 🚀 Ever felt like your applications are stuck in their own little silos, unable to talk to each other efficiently? Or maybe you’ve wrestled with getting different programming languages to play nicely together without a mountain of boilerplate code? Well, buckle up, because we’re diving into the exciting world of composable, polyglot architectures with Razi P3, and it’s a game-changer! ✨ ...

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! 🌐 ...