Saúl Cabrera — Production Ready Server-Side WebAssembly: The Challenging Parts

https://2021.webassembly-summit.org

Shopify is one of the first companies to adopt server-side WebAssembly at scale. It powers our synchronous customization platform, which we are getting ready to launch to more than 1 million merchants.

This talk explores Shopify's adoption of WebAssembly, focusing on the challenging parts. WebAssembly fulfills a specific use case within Shopify, but as early adopters, it has become clear that WebAssembly has the potential to change the horizon of possibilities for the software industry. We aim to expose our adoption challenges as opportunities for the community to improve WebAssembly's ecosystem. To illustrate our vision of WebAssembly's potential, we'll examine the WebAssembly specification, the developer tools and the availability and maturity of programming languages. We'll also discuss how closing the gaps in each of these areas will open the door for existing and potential companies to start using WebAssembly.