Taking Fermyon's Spin for a spin with Thorsten Hans

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Join Thomas Steiner as he chats with Thorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, about the exciting world of WebAssembly serverless functions and microservices with the Spin framework. Discover how Spin uses WebAssembly for lightning-fast cold starts and great portability, and explore the advantages of building microservice applications with Spin's diverse language support. Thorsten and Thomas also delve into the role of WebAssembly standards in shaping the future of cloud-native development. Tune in for this insightful conversation on the cutting edge of WebAssembly technology! Chapters: 0:00 - Welcome Thorsten Hans from Fermyon 2:52- Thorsten's way to WebAssembly 5:48 - Fermyon, Thorsten, and Wasm standardization 8:19 - Fermyon Spin 12:51 - How do Spin apps start up so fast? 16:06 - Spin, WASI and the component model 19:37 - Spin triggers with the WASI HTTP API 22:15 - Running JavaScript with StarlingMonkey 29:32 - Could StarlingMonkey run in the browser? 31:43 - Rust on Spin vs. JavaScript on Spin 34:42 - Is there vendor lock-in with Spin? 42:50 - Wasm, but not Resources: Thorsten Hans' Fermyon blog posts → Thorsten Hans on X → Thorsten Hans' blog → Thorsten Hans on LinkedIn → Thorsten Hans on joining Fermyon → Till Schneidereit on LinkedIn → Fermyon Spin → Introducing Spin → Fermyon Spin on GitHub → Building Spin Components in JavaScript → WasmAssembly episode "Squishy Wasm apps using Extism with Dylibso's Steve Manuel": → Spin JS/TS SD