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Nov 1, 2024 | 
dev.to | Matt Butcher
By: Matt ButcherIn the last few years, we’ve witnessed the introduction of several new lightweight Kubernetes distributions. SUSE’s Rancher Labs k3s project was one of the earliest. Canonical now includes Microk8s in Ubuntu. And k0s is a single-binary Kubernetes distribution. Earlier this year, we launched a project called SpinKube that makes it easy to run Spin applications inside of your Kubernetes cluster.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Matt Butcher
Enthusiasm for WebAssembly (Wasm) has been building for the last few years. And while some Wasm energy remains in the browser world, more excitement is concentrated on Wasm on the server side of the equation. Microsoft, Cloudflare, SUSE, Docker, Red Hat, and other stalwarts have introduced Wasm products or integrations. Multiple open source projects are making their way through CNCF’s project path, and developer interest has surged.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Matt Butcher |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
The other day, I was chatting with a platform engineer. “You do WebAssembly stuff, right? It seems like everyone is talking about it as the new way to do serverless. What does that mean?” Originally conceived as a browser technology, WebAssembly (Wasm) is showing up in many places now. In the Kubernetes world, it is providing a new way of running serverless — sometimes called FaaS or Functions as a Service. Kubernetes just crossed its tenth anniversary.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Matt Butcher
Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology company, it began leasing the use of its hardware. Customers of this new Elastic Compute service could upload virtual machine (VM) images, and Amazon would run those VMs on the customer's behalf. Cloud computing was born.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Matt Butcher |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
This year Kubernetes celebrates its tenth birthday. As a developer who has been around the community since its early days, I found occasion to reflect on how things started, how Kubernetes marched to maturity, and how it is now displaying potential to expand into the WebAssembly movement. And since I’m a Swiftie, I broke these into eras in honor of my favorite musician. Era 1: When Kubernetes Was SimpleFirst, there was Borg.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
dev.to | Matt Butcher
The sidecar pattern in Kubernetes describes a single pod containing a container in which a main app sits. A helper container (the sidecar) is deployed alongside a main app container within the same pod. This pattern allows each container to focus on a single aspect of the overall functionality, improving the maintainability and scalability of apps deployed in Kubernetes environments.
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May 7, 2024 | 
infoq.com | Bytecode Alliance |Matt Butcher |Eran Stiller
Like other technologies, WebAssembly has outgrown its initial purpose and is now showing up in cloud, edge, embedded, and other environments besides the browser. The WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) allows one WebAssembly binary to safely interact with another over a structured interface. With WCM, libraries written in different languages (such as Rust, Python, JavaScript, Go, and more) can interoperate in a true polyglot fashion.
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May 1, 2024 | 
dev.to | Matt Butcher
I started my software development career as a web developer. I worked at companies large and small, including stints at HP and Google. At Microsoft, I was a principal engineer. I left to become co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. I’m not one to dispense advice often. Our individual experiences are varied, and the anecdotal evidence of one person’s experience rarely generalizes well.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
infoworld.com | Matt Butcher
Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on-premises or self-managed hardware. And the primary justification for this movement is straightforward, especially in a time of economic downturn. Save money by not using AWS, Azure, or the other cloud hosting services. Save money by building and managing your own infrastructure.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Matt Butcher |David Cassel |Mary Branscombe |Amanda Kelly
At Wasm I/O in Barcelona and KubeCon in Paris, several updates regarding WebAssembly (Wasm) were announced. From these, four big patterns emerged. Programming Language Support Is BoomingSince its inception, the biggest risk to Wasm’s success has been lack of support from programming languages. Even the best cross-platform bytecode format cannot succeed if no languages compile to that format. I’ve been keeping track of language support in WebAssembly for a long time.
