Training > Web & Application > WebAssembly Components: From Cloud to Edge (LFD134)

Training Course

Learn about the portability, efficiency, and security of WebAssembly modules and how to leverage a number of open source frameworks to create distributed and seamlessly connected components that can be deployed in a browser, on a laptop, in the cloud, on a Raspberry Pi, or practically anywhere.

Who Is It For

This course is designed for developers who have built or are building microservices and have experienced a high degree of friction in cloud native application development. Developers looking to embrace the simplicity of Functions as a Service (FaaS) without the overhead of cloud providers or sacrificing the ability to experiment and test locally and in any other environment will gain significant value from this course.

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What You’ll Learn

Learn foundational Rust skills such as creating and hosting WebAssembly modules. Explore the JavaScript WebAssembly API for browsers and multiple alternative, non-web host runtimes for WebAssembly. Become familiar with the benefits and usage of the component model and gain the ability to easily create distributed, cloud native applications using secure WebAssembly modules as a deployment target by leveraging open source projects. Learn to differentiate between the features and functionality afforded by the base WebAssembly specification versus additional features added by community tooling and open source projects, and understand how WebAssembly-based applications really work.

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What It Prepares You For

After completing this course, you will be able to build portable, secure, lightweight WebAssembly modules that thrive in the cloud, at the edge, and anywhere in between.

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Course Outline

Chapter 1. Course Introduction

Chapter 2. WebAssembly from Scratch

Chapter 3. WebAssembly with Rust

Chapter 4. Using WebAssembly Host Runtimes

Chapter 5. Advanced Guest and Host Communications

Chapter 6. WebAssembly and the Component Model

Chapter 7. Advanced Component and Capability Use Cases

Prerequisites

Knowledge/Skills

Intermediate programming skills are required, though no specific language or platform is mandatory. The majority of the course code will be in Rust with a few sections in JavaScript and even raw WebAssembly Text (wat) format.

System Prerequisites

Rust toolchain (including the wasm32-unknown target) installed
Modern web browser with a high degree of WebAssembly support (e.g. Firefox, Chrome, or Edge).

Reviews

Dec 2024

WebAssembly is quite difficult to learn outside such a platform. I must say this course was very useful.