Objectives

What are we going to do today?

Understand where WASM came from

Figure out how to get started with WASM

Examine some of the tools

Explore the specification

Summary

WebAssembly...

... certainly holds a lot of promise

bytecode offers lots of room for performance improvement

WASM futures offer a lot of areas for general enhancement

... is as-yet-unclear as to its impact

could represent huge shift in client-side Web

could end up being a footnote that nobody cares about

not clear what will make the difference

Credentials

Who is this guy?

Architect, Engineering Manager/Leader, "force multiplier"

http://www.newardassociates.com

http://blogs.newardassociates.com

Sr Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

Educative (http://educative.io) Author

Performance Management for Engineering Managers

Books

Developer Relations Activity Patterns (w/Woodruff, et al; APress, forthcoming)

Professional F# 2.0 (w/Erickson, et al; Wrox, 2010)

Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

SSCLI Essentials (w/Stutz, et al; OReilly, 2003)

Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000)