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WebAssembly and Containers: Orchestrating Distributed Architectures with .NET Aspire
Running, composing, and debugging distributed applications on the local developer machine can be difficult, error-prone, and time-intensive. Those daily tasks could be dramatically simplified thanks to .NET Aspire. In this article, we will quickly dive into .NET Aspire and illustrate how you can orchestrate next-generation distributed applications.
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WebAssembly, the Safer Alternative to Integrating Native Code in Java
Developers typically choose between porting the code or dynamic linking to run native code on the JVM. This article examines these approaches, using SQLite as an example, and introduces a third option: Chicory Wasm runtime. This alternative combines the advantages of traditional methods while addressing their limitations, potentially offering a more secure solution to integrate native code.
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Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach
WebAssembly has expanded its scope from browsers to other domains like cloud and edge computing. It uses the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) to enable seamless interaction between libraries from different programming languages, such as Rust, Python, and JavaScript, promoting a true polyglot programming environment.
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InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2023
This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.
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The Six Ways of Optimizing WebAssembly
While Wasm was originally designed for the browser, it turned out to be useful for embedded programming, plugins, cloud, and edge computing. For all these use cases, performance is tremendously important and is greatly impacted by file size. In this article, we’ll look at six ways to optimize Wasm for performance and file size.
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InfoQ .NET Trends Report 2022
Every year, all InfoQ editors invite seasoned developers and practitioners from the industry to discuss the current trends in the entire software development landscape. In this article, we discuss some of the .NET Trends for 2022, divided into four stages of adoption.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.