WebAssembly in Kong using WasmX - User Call

WebAssembly in Kong using WasmX - User Call

Nov 23, 2022

Get a technical preview of the upcoming support for WebAssembly in the Kong Gateway leveraging WasmX, a project created by Kong that adds WebAssembly support into Nginx. You will learn:

  • WebAssembly and what kinds of multi-language development it allows
  • WasmX and how it extends Nginx capabilities to support WebAssembly in a way that is Virtual Machine agnostic
  • Proxy-Wasm, the emerging standard for gateway extensions using Wasm, allowing filters to be written once and used in different gateways or meshes that support the format
  • How WasmX integrates into the Kong Gateway, enabling the execution of Proxy-Wasm filters as easily as Kong Plugins