Session: 2 for 1: Serverless vs Edge for your Postgres queries/Supercharging tutorials with WebAssembly
Serverless vs Edge for your Postgres queries – Raouf Chebri
In our effort to reduce Postgres query latencies to sum 10ms, we experienced with different protocols as WebSockets and HTTP, by also different runtimes such as Node.KD and Edge. In this talk, we’ll explore the differences WebSockets and HTTP for your Postgres queries and some of our findings.
Supercharging tutorials with WebAssembly – Robert Aboukhalil
sandbox.bio is a free platform that features interactive command-line tutorials for bioinformatics. This talk is a deep-dive into how sandbox.bio was built, with a focus on how WebAssembly enabled bringing command-line tools like awk and grep to the web. Although these tools were originally written in C/C++, they all run directly in the browser, thanks to WebAssembly! And since the computations run on each user’s computer, this makes the application highly scalable and cost-effective.
Along the way, I’ll discuss how WebAssembly works and how to get started using it in your own applications. The talk will also cover more advanced WebAssembly features such as threads and SIMD, and will end with a discussion of WebAssembly’s benefits and pitfalls (it’s a powerful technology, but it’s not always the right tool!).
