May 24, 2023
Agenda
- Update on Wadm from Taylor
- RFC: Defining Interfaces Using Wit from Kevin
- What's happening in the wider Wasm community?
- Component model update from Bailey
Meeting Notes
DEMO: Wadm Progress & Prep for Release - Taylor
- Good progress has been made in getting Wadm closer to official release. We expect to release Wadm in the next couple of weeks, depending on bug fixes and e2e tests.
- We welcome as much feedback as we can get as we near this milestone.
- This is the first big release. It is pretty feature-complete and you should be able to build real things on top of it.
- Demo shows significant improvements in stability - no more jitters, it launches instantaneously.
- Not a fully-tested scenario but you can see providers running on every host.
- Take a look at the demo section of the recording to see the improvements that have been made.
- Architecture diagram forthcoming shortly.
- Next up - e2e testing and release.
- Docs, resources and deployment guides are now avail in the wasmCloud docs.
- Link to WADM 0.4 project board
RFC: Finding a Smooth Path from Smithy to WIT - Bailey for Kevin
- This fresh RFC covers the early thinking here and we'd love to hear your thoughts and contributions.
- Kevin has come up with some of the initial interfaces - wasi-cloud is the intention when stable.
- Dan Chiarlone and Joe at Deis are working on standardizing wasi-cloud interfaces as we speak.
- We showed a prototype at Wasmio - take a look if you haven't already seen the talk.
- This was one of the first examples of showing a component running e2e with WIT interfaces, early was-cloud APIs and running in wasmCloud.
- We're now able to pick a path and run it down.
Community Update - Bailey
- In the Bytecode Alliance, a ton of progress has been made on the implementation of the Component Model. In particular, we're really starting to land new capabilities in Wasmtime.
- Wasmtime has the wasi-preview 2 adaptor brought over.
- We also bring up a couple of high level types - handles and references - which are faster, easier to use and suited to language interoperability.
- Call for builders will come in June to time with the Wasmtime release.
- We will bring this over to the wasmCloud host as quickly as we can.