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🤖 Contribute to the WasmEdge Project via the CNCF LFX Mentorship Fall Term 2021

Contribute to the WasmEdge project. Make your mark in Open Source, and earn a stipend of $3000 to $6600! WasmEdge is a cloud-native WebAssembly runtime hosted by the CNCF. It is widely used in edge computing, automotive, Jamstack, serverless, SaaS, service mesh, and even blockchain applications. WasmEdge is written in C++, and has SDKs for C/C++, Rust, Golang, and JavaScript. We welcome all types of contributions — code, docs, integrations, specs, examples!…

Rust and WebAssembly Serverless functions in Vercel

Vercel is a leading platform for developing and hosting Jamstack applications. Unlike traditional web apps, where the UI is dynamically generated at runtime from a server, a Jamstack application consists of a static UI (in HTML and JavaScript) and a set of serverless functions to support dynamic UI elements via JavaScript. There are many benefits to the Jamstack approach. But perhaps one of the most significant benefits is performance. Since the UI is no longer generated at runtime from a central server, there is much less load on the server and we can now deploy the UI via edge networks such as CDNs.…

WebAssembly Serverless Functions in Netlify

Netlify is a leading platform for developing and hosting Jamstack applications. In fact, the term Jamstack was coined by Netlify founder Mathias Biilmann in 2015. Netlify also hosts the annual Jamstack Conf. A Jamstack application consists of a static UI (in HTML and JavaScript) and a set of serverless functions to support dynamic UI elements via JavaScript. There are many benefits to the Jamstack approach. But perhaps one of the most significant benefits is performance.…

A Complete Guide to DCO for Open Source Developers

When you contribute code to an open-source project, such as WasmEdge, you are often asked to sign a DCO (Developer Certificate of Origin) to ensure that the project has the proper rights to use your code. However, signing the DCO could be confusing and error prone. It is a barrier for many potential open source contributors. In this article, I will teach you exactly how to sign a DCO for open source projects hosted on GitHub.…

AI Inference for Real-time Data Streams with WasmEdge and YoMo

YoMo is a programming framework enabling developers to build a distributed cloud system (Geo-Distributed Cloud System). YoMo's communication layer is made on top of the QUIC protocol, which brings high-speed data transmission. In addition, it has a built-in Streaming Serverless “streaming function”, which significantly improves the development experience of distributed cloud systems. The distributed cloud system built by YoMo provides an ultra-high-speed communication mechanism between near-field computing power and terminals. It has a wide range of use cases in Metaverse, VR/AR, IoT, etc.…

Extend your Golang app with embedded WebAssembly functions in WasmEdge

The GO programming language (Golang) is an easy-to-use and secure programming language that compiles into high-performance native applications. It is a very popular choice for writing software infrastructure and frameworks. A key requirement for software frameworks is the ability for users to extend and customize it with their own code. However, in Golang, adding user-defined functions or extensions to an existing app is not easy. Oftentimes, you need to integrate at the source code level by combining the source code for the framework and the user-defined functions.…

Second State joins the Autoware Foundation

Second State has joined the Autoware Foundation as an industry member. Through collaboration with the Foundation and member organizations, Second State aims to create and promote an open-source virtualization runtime for Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). According to a recent paper on IEEE Spectrum, a typical car has 50+ software vendors. Traditional automotive engineering keeps those heterogeneous software components safe via hardware isolation. That is to enclose each vendor’s software in its own hardware known as an ECU.…

🥳 WasmEdge (formerly SSVM) is now a CNCF Project

The WasmEdge Runtime (formerly SSVM) is a lightweight and high-performance WebAssembly (WASM) VM optimized for edge computing. It is widely used in scenarios ranging from cloud serverless functions, SaaS, blockchain smart contracts, IoT, to automotive real time applications. WasmEdge has recently been accepted by the CNCF Foundation as a sandbox project, which is the world's first official CNCF WebAssembly runtime project. We envision that it will fill an important role in CNCF’s open source cloud computing landscape as a mission critical lightweight runtime for edge clouds.…

Deploying Tensorflow models in production with less than 50 lines of code

Serverless Tensorflow functions in public clouds For software developers and students, artificial intelligence pays. In 2021, the average annual salary for Tensorflow (a popular AI framework) developers is $148,508. Skills in artificial intelligence are now mandatory in even entry level programming jobs. In fact, it is quite easily to follow an online tutorial and train your own Tensorflow model for tasks such as image recognition and natural language processing. You only need some basic Python knowledge to do the training and then run the model for a demo.…

Serverless AI functions on Tencent Cloud

Tencent is a leading serverless infrastructure provider in the public cloud. With the WasmEdge custom runtime for Tencent Serverless Cloud Function (SCF), you can write a few lines of simple code to turn any Tensorflow model into a serverless function and then offer it as a web service. A template project containing source code and configuration files is available here. Out of the box, you can deploy the template to Tencent Cloud and have a working web app for image classification.…