Wasm Versus Containers and Virtual Machines
This IDC Market Perspective discusses the impacts of WebAssembly (Wasm) from an infrastructure deployment point of view and its impacts on existing virtual machines (VMs) and containers. It explores the security isolation implications of Wasm and the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) for server applications."Wasm is an exciting new technology not just for developers but for infrastructure and operations as well. Containers did not make VMs obsolete, and Wasm will not make containers or VMs obsolete, but rather complement them. However, Wasm has potential as a standalone encapsulation technology, but that will require several years to mature and prove," says Gary Chen, research director, Software Defined Compute at IDC.
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