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A Lightweight, Safe, Portable, and High-Performance Runtime for Dapr

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) has quickly become a very popular open-source framework for building microservices. It provides building blocks and pre-packaged services that are commonly used in distributed applications, such as service invocation, state management, message queues, resource bindings and triggers, mTLS secure connections, and service monitoring.

Michael Yuan
on Oct 04, 2021
.NET

Uno Platform and Xamarin.Forms: Choosing Your Next UI Framework

In this article, Matt Lacey, Microsoft MVP, talks about his recent experience helping a company choose between Uno Platform and Xamarin.Forms. He explains the differences, similarities, and relationships between the two, considering what the future holds for both these platforms and how to choose between them.

Matt Lacey
on Apr 26, 2021
Architecture & Design

Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report—April 2021

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Thomas Betts Holly Cummins Daniel Bryant Eran Stiller
on Apr 19, 2021 3
Emerging Technologies

Boosting WebAssembly Performance with SIMD and Multi-Threading

Early implementations of WebAssembly's SIMD and multi-threading proposals show that WebAssembly is narrowing the gap with native performance, by using SIMD instructions and multicore CPUs. Significant performance improvements have been observed in compute-intensive tasks (machine-learning, bio-informatics, scientific computing).

Bruno Couriol
on Feb 19, 2021
Emerging Technologies

Server-Side Wasm - Q&A with Michael Yuan, Second State CEO

WebAssembly can be used server-side to provide the performance required by use cases such as blockchains and edge AI services. Non-standard extensions may address those use cases today, possibly weakening WebAssembly portability benefits. The gathered experience may however provide important inputs to current and future WebAssembly proposals.

Michael Yuan Bruno Couriol
on Dec 01, 2020
Emerging Technologies

Server-Side Wasm: Today and Tomorrow - Q&A with Connor Hicks

At QCon this year, Connor Hicks presented the opportunities linked to using Web Assembly outside of the browser. Hicks addressed current and future server-side use cases for WebAssembly. He explained how Wasm and its ecosystem allow developers to craft serverless applications by declaratively composing serverless functions written in different languages.

Connor Hicks Bruno Couriol
on Nov 24, 2020
Emerging Technologies

Improving Webassembly and Its Tooling -- Q&A with Wasmtime’s Nick Fitzgerald

WebAssembly, now a web standard, aims to grow beyond the browser. Wasm runtimes are implementing proposals to achieve this vision. Fitzgerald tells us about his recent work on WebAssembly tooling and his implementation of reference types in the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime -- a prelude to interface types and easy interoperation between Wasm and a host language.

Nick Fitzgerald Bruno Couriol
on Oct 05, 2020
Emerging Technologies

Level Up with WebAssembly - Book Review and Q&A

WebAssembly is a difficult-to-learn technological stack, with rough edges and a fast-moving target. Porting existing software to WebAssembly and the web remains a complex endeavor. Level Up With WebAssembly strives to give a practitioner perspective to porting C/C++ software to browsers. The book is highly practical and includes recipes to successfully convert software to the web.

Bruno Couriol Robert Aboukhalil
on Aug 03, 2020
Web Development

Deno Loves WebAssembly

The much anticipated Deno project has finally reached v1.0! Deno is created by the original developer of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, to address what he called “10 things I regret about Node.js”. Without an NPM-like system to incorporate native modules, how do we write server-side applications that require native performance on Deno? WebAssembly is here to help!

Michael Yuan
on Jul 15, 2020
Emerging Technologies

WebAssembly at Sentry - Q&A with Armin Ronacher

Sentry sees great potential in WebAssembly and uses it internally in the context of its ingestion system. However, further usage is hampered by the limited capabilities of WebAssembly when debugging in production. While proposals exist to make the DWARF standard debugging format work with Wasm, more work and better tooling are necessary. InfoQ interviews Sentry's Armin Ronacher.

Armin Ronacher Bruno Couriol
on May 25, 2020
Web Development

How to Use Encryption for Defense in Depth in Native and Browser Apps

Isaac Potoczny-Jones discusses the pros and cons of application-layer encryption. He covers the attack surface of application-layer encryption in the browser, how it is very different from native clients, and how WebCrypto helps.

Isaac Potoczny-Jones
on May 13, 2020
.NET

Mono: from Xamarin to WebAssembly, Blazor, and .NET 5 - Q&A with Miguel de Icaza

Mono started as an open source .NET platform in 2001, being developed by Xamarin until 2011. Since the company’s acquisition by Microsoft in 2016, both Mono and .NET Core have been developed in parallel. In the light of the most recent releases, InfoQ interviewed Miguel de Icaza —the original author of the Mono project—to talk about the current state of Mono and its future in the .NET ecosystem.

Arthur Casals Miguel de Icaza
on Feb 13, 2020