Assorted links for Wednesday, January 8:
- Amex’s FaaS Uses WebAssembly Instead of Containers
A key reason behind Amex’s adoption of WebAssembly is that WebAssembly demonstrated superior performance metrics compared to containers.
- Enhance build security and reach SLSA Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attestations
The Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) framework … provides a comprehensive, step-by-step methodology for building integrity and provenance guarantees into your software supply chain.
- Introducing Configurable Metaflow
Standing on the shoulders of our extensive cloud infrastructure, Metaflow facilitates easy access to data, compute, and production-grade workflow orchestration, as well as built-in best practices for common concerns such as collaboration, versioning, dependency management, and observability, which teams use to setup ML/AI experiments and systems that work for them. As a result, Metaflow users at Netflix have been able to run millions of experiments over the past few years without wasting time on low-level concerns.
- The Feds Push WebAssembly for Cloud Native Security
According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) paper, “A Data Protection Approach for Cloud-Native Applications,” released earlier this year, WebAssembly could and should be integrated across the cloud native service mesh sphere in particular to enhance security.
- Self-Designing Software
Exploring ways to include a software system as an active member of its own design team, able to reason about its own design and to synthesize better variants of its own building blocks as it encounters different deployment conditions.