What is WasmEdge Runtime ?

• One of the fastest WebAssembly VMs on the market
• WasmEdge feature extensions
  • Network sockets (Rust and JavaScript SDKs)
  • Async polling (for Rust Future and JS async)
  • Tensorflow inference (Tutorial)
  • Key value storage
  • Database connector
  • Gas meters for resource constraints
• JavaScript support
  • ES6 module and std API support
  • Implement JS APIs in Rust (Tutorial)
  • Import C native shared library functions as JS functions (Tutorial)
• Cloud native management and orchestration
  • CRI-O and Kubernetes compatibility
  • Sidecar apps in Kubernetes-based service meshes
  • Dapr microservices (Tutorial)
• Cross-platform support
  • Linux OSes dated back to 2010 for both x86 and ARM CPUs
  • Mac OS X for both x86 and m1 CPUs
  • Windows
  • Microkernel and RTOS (e.g., the highly secure seL4 microkernel)
• Easy extensibility
  • Build customized runtimes with native functions in C or GO
• Easy to embed into a host application
  • Embed WasmEdge functions in C, Go, Rust, Node.js and Python host applications
  • Embedded function runtime for service mesh proxies (e.g., proxy-wasm for Envoy and MOSN proxies)

Features Detail

Use cases: Web application architectures (Isomorphic & Jamstack apps), microservices on the edge cloud, serverless SaaS APIs, embedded functions, Web3& smart devices.

• https://wasmedge.org/book/en/
• https://wasmedge.org/