Track Overview
WebAssembly & Modern Systems Programming Languages
WebAssembly, despite having ‘web’ in its name, is proving to be much more than just a browser technology or JavaScript rival. The properties of this runtime (multi-language, lightweight, sandboxed, secure, cross-platform, etc) have piqued the interest of the wider community. In the past few years, we’ve seen WebAssembly used as the runtime for serverless, running smart contracts on blockchain, IoT, and edge computing. Ironically WebAssembly may have more of an impact outside of the browser!
This past year we’ve experienced growing concerns around open source sustainability and supply chain attacks, it’s even attracted the attention of the White House! Recent advances in systems programming languages seek to address the memory and thread safety challenges that are often the target of malicious exploits, advances which have catapulted Rust into the spotlight, leading to it becoming the ‘most loved’ language in the Stackoverflow survey four years running.
In this track, we’ll explore both WebAssembly outside of the browser and modern system programming languages, and see how often the two go hand-in-hand
Colin Eberhardt
CTO @Scott_LogicFrom this track
There and Back Again: Our Rust Adoption Journey
Wednesday Apr 6 / 10:35AM BST
The introduction of a new programming language is a significant undertaking with long-term implications — a choice not to be taken lightly. TrueLayer's main business is not system programming, yet we decided to bet on Rust. Why? How?During the talk we will walk through our adoption...
Luca Palmieri
Principal Engineer @TrueLayer
Blazing Fast, Minimal Change - Speed Up Your Code by Refactoring to Rust
Wednesday Apr 6 / 11:50AM BST
In order to improve the performance of existing applications and services, we can identify the most performance-critical pieces and reimplement them in Rust as opposed to completely rewriting the applications from scratch.It’s tempting when we hear about a new technology or language to want...
Lily Mara
Engineering Manager @OneSignal
What's Next for Rust and WebAssembly
Wednesday Apr 6 / 01:40PM BST
Most people have heard of Rust, due to the vibrant and happ[y community around the language, exemplified by it having held the top spot as the 'most loved' language in the Stack Overflow developer survey for the past six years. However, few of us get the chance to use this delightful...
Luca Palmieri
Principal Engineer @TrueLayer
William Overton
Senior Serverless Solutions Architect @Fastly
Lily Mara
Engineering Manager @OneSignal
Rob Pilling
Lead Developer @Scott_Logic
Better Serverless Computing With WebAssembly
Wednesday Apr 6 / 02:55PM BST
About 10 years ago Fastly was founded with the goal of bringing developer's applications as close to users as possible.In this talk you'll see why WebAssembly is the next big step on our journey to computing at the edge. Learn about our edge computing platform, Compute@Edge, and upcoming...
William Overton
Senior Serverless Solutions Architect @Fastly
WebAssembly: Open to Interpretation
Wednesday Apr 6 / 04:10PM BST
Webassembly has been doing the rounds for a little while now. It's implemented in all major browsers, and we've seen several large, typically desktop-only apps use it to run on the web. Not to mention DOOM, of course.This makes Webassembly seem intimidating, surely there must be a lot to...
Rob Pilling
Lead Developer @Scott_Logic
Speakers from this track
Luca Palmieri
Principal Engineer @TrueLayer
Luca Palmieri is a Principal Engineer at TrueLayer. He is one of the co-organisers of the Rust London Meetup and the author of "Zero To Production In Rust", an introduction to backend development using the Rust programming language.
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Lily Mara
Engineering Manager @OneSignal
Lily Mara is an Engineering Manager at OneSignal in San Mateo, CA. She manages the Infrastructure Services team, which is responsible for in-house services used by other OneSignal engineering teams. Previously she was a software engineer at OneSignal, leading the efforts to create OneSignal's...
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William Overton
Senior Serverless Solutions Architect @Fastly
William Overton is a Senior Serverless Solutions Architect at Fastly where we're working on the future of edge computing. His main focuses are helping customers adopt (and get excited about) WebAssembly and Serverless Computing. In his spare time Will likes trying out new technologies...
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Rob Pilling
Lead Developer @Scott_Logic
I'm a lead developer at Scott Logic, a multifaceted UK-based software consultancy. I maintain an active interest in tech developments, having contributed to projects such as Rust and my favourite text editor, Vim! I can be found on github as bobrippling.
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Track Host
Colin Eberhardt
CTO @Scott_Logic
Track Host
Colin Eberhardt
CTO @Scott_Logic
I’m the CTO at Scott Logic, a UK-based software consultancy where we create complex application for our financial services clients. I’m an avid technology enthusiast, spending my evenings contributing to open source projects, writing blog posts and learning as much as I can. You can...
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