Item: wasmCloud
Rating: 10
Author: Matt Wilkinson

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a maintainer of wasmCloud. I contribute features and fixes to the wasmCloud CLI “wash” as well as to various other wasmCloud projects. I am involved in making decisions about the long-term direction of the project. While I have not used wasmCloud in my work at Google, I use it often for personal side projects. I also participated in a tech demo of wasmCloud to Google engineers.

Pros and Cons

Security
Developer Experience
Ease of Use
Cutting Edge Technology
Multi-Language Support

Maturity
Self-Hosting
Support for more external services needs to be built

Return on Investment

wasmCloud hasn’t had any ROI yet, as it is still a developing technology

Support Rating

The community around wasmCloud, on GitHub, Slack, and in the weekly Zoom meeting is fantastic and always willing to help anyone out.

Key Insights

Do you think wasmCloud delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with wasmCloud's feature set?

Yes

Did wasmCloud live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of wasmCloud go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy wasmCloud again?

Yes

Usability

It is a fantastic technology but still developing. It will be a 10 once it is more mature and has more support for different external services.

Likelihood to Recommend

wasmCloud is well suited for enterprise software. It is a secure-by-default platform, with support for any language that can compile to WebAssembly, and an excellent boilerplate-free developer experience. It also solves many routing & service discovery problems that were difficult to solve with the existing cloud infratstructure mainstays, such as Kubernetes. I think of wasmCloud as a blending of two “previous generation” cloud computing revolutions - Docker containers and Kubernetes, adding in two great new technologies in WebAssembly and NATS, and coming out with one cohesive package that is easier to use for developers and those managing production software deployments, as well as considerably more secure.

A cutting edge technology that will revolutionize cloud computing

Overall Satisfaction with wasmCloud