Building databases in WebAssembly

Kevin Burns - Pantopic

You don’t need the latest and greatest WebAssembly features to build great products.

We’ll demonstrate five architecture patterns we used to work around feature implementation lag in the WebAssembly ecosystem while building a commercial open source alternative to etcd using WASI Preview 1 on Wazero.

• Meta pages
• Instance pools
• Virtual streams
• Async callbacks
• Closed systems

Don’t wait for standards to be finalized. The future is now!