WasmEdge

Join the Security Slam with WasmEdge and Boost Open Source Security!

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting the annual Security Slam, a virtual event aimed at enhancing the security posture of CNCF projects. WasmEdge is thrilled to be a part of this initiative, and contributors, we need your help! Why Participate? For the Open Source Community: Elevate awareness of modern security tools and practices, ensuring a safer ecosystem for all. For Contributors: Awards and recognition for new and outstanding contributions to projects Linux Foundation Cybersecurity Training and Certification Find new projects and meet new communities Build on existing skills or learn new ones How Can You Help WasmEdge?…

Prompt AI for Different Everyday Tasks: Your Customizable Personal Assistants

Introduction: In today's rapidly advancing large language models landscape, people are anxious about losing jobs to AI. We are increasingly integrating to our daily lives. From assisting with reading, writing, drawing, and traveling to learning new things, we want to make AI help us better instead of replace us. We proactively embrace LLMs like ChatGPT for different needs. A common challenge we face is when using ChatGPT, we are logged out every 15 minutes and the answer histories we have could be very unorganized and all mumble jumble.…

Build the future of cloud computing with WasmEdge via GSoC

Google Summer of Code 2023 is accepting applications with WasmEdge as a featured open source project with two available projects. By participating, you'll have the opportunity to work on WasmEdge and contribute to the evolution of cloud computing. GSoC is a global, online mentoring program that introduces new contributors to open source software development. Through GSoC, you will gain valuable experience in real-world software development while being compensated for your efforts and time!…

Michael Yuan, Second State: The Default Should be Zero Trust

Orginal post from CyberNews Whether constructing a new cloud-native app or updating an existing one, developers should keep to an even set of principles. The application optimization cycle becomes critical if keeping up with consumer expectations and agile business operations are desired to be achieved. Harnessing the full power of the cloud can not only reduce costs but also visibly improve the everyday user experience. Therefore, building native cloud applications should become a priority.…

Web3 Foundation grant project enhances Substrate to run on WasmEdge

The open source developers from the WasmEdge community have just delivered the first two milestones of our Web3 Foundation grant. The result is a Substrate implementation that runs on the WasmEdge WebAssembly Runtime. Why is an Alternative Runtime Needed? In Sept 2016, a computational DDoS attack was launched against the nascent Ethereum blockchain while most Ethereum developers were attending Devcon2 in Shanghai. The attack exploited an issue with the GETH software and brought down Ethereum nodes running GETH.…

🚀 WasmEdge 0.10.0 is released!

In version 0.10.0, WasmEdge provides a brand new plug-in mechanism to make native extensions easier to develop and install, improves compatibility with LLVM 14, and supports new WebAssembly specs, proposals, and features. New plug-in system for native host functions Many enhancements to the WasmEdge socket API (e.g., microservices and web service clients in WasmEdge) Support for new WebAssembly proposals and specs WasmEdge C API enhancements Other features and bug fixes New plug-in system for native Host Functions The host funtion is the bridge that allows WebAssembly programs to access functionalities and features provided by native libraries.…

🤖 How to Use Wasm to Add UDFs to the Database

By arcosx, a senior software engineer in charge of Machine Learning platform at Baidu. Introduction UDF (User-defined function) is the type of function users can customize. In databases, UDF represents a mechanism for extending the capabilities of a database service by adding a function. Wasm (WebAssembly) is a new format that is portable, small, fast loading, and compatible with the Web. In recent years, Wasm has not only been widely used on the front-end, but has also played an increasingly important role on the server-side.…

😎 WasmEdge 0.9.1 is released! Better networking support, Android support, better developer experience, and more.

WasmEdge 0.9.1 is released! This release features integrated high-performance networking, JavaScript streaming SSR and Fetch API support, a new bindgen framework, Android and OpenHarmony OS support, expanded Kubernetes support, and improved memory management. WebAssembly extensions Streaming SSR functions Android and OpenHarmony Kubernetes Bug fixes and performance enhancements WebAssembly extensions WasmEdge aims to support all standard and optional standard WebAssembly extension proposals. It also supports non-standard and experimental extensions that are important to cloud-native use cases, such as networking and data passing.…

Brand New Website and Docs for WasmEdge in the New Year

Hello WasmEdge Community, We are excited to launch 🚀 a brand new website and our all-in-one documentation book for the WasmEdge project. Our goals are to make it easier for new developers to get started with WasmEdge, and for existing developers to discover new features and unlock new skills. As part of the official documentation set maintained by the WasmEdge team, the WasmEdge book is the most comprehensive guide on WasmEdge.…

🎅 Ho Ho Ho, WasmEdge 0.9.0 is here!

WasmEdge 0.9.0 is released just in time for the holidays. It is time for you to check out the bells and whistles, and unlock a new skill for 2022! This release of WasmEdge is focused on performance, stability, and interoperability with cloud native infrastructure. Specifically, WasmEdge now supports SIMD and several other WebAssembly feature proposals by default more JavaScript standards, such as ES6, CJS, and NPM modules improved performance, especially for JavaScript apps an improved and standard compliant C API an improved Go API and Reactr integration Dapr integration a new Universal Wasm Binary file format for AOT compiled high performance apps container and Kubernetes ecosystem SIMD and other WebAssembly proposals WasmEdge has supported the WebAssembly SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) proposal since version 0.…