spin-wasm-multi-compute | A rough proof of concept for running the same WASM artifact on EC2, ECS/Fargate and Lambda

spin-wasm-multi-compute is a Python library typically used in Binary Executable Format applications. spin-wasm-multi-compute has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This is a science project that aims to demonstrate how WebAssembly code can be run on different type of infrastructure compute primitives (namely instances, containers and functions). This experiment specifically leverages Spin, "...a framework for building, deploying, and running fast, secure, and composable cloud microservices with WebAssembly." Note Spin is an open source project made available under the Apache-2.0 license. The inspiration for this PoC generated from this GitHub discussion. We are not going to debate here what the merits (or drawbacks) of running WebAssembly code and Spin specifically in each of the primitives considered. The goal was to demonstrate that it can be done (more or less elegantly). Note that this project focuses solely on demonstrating the possibility of running WASM artifacts across heterogeneous compute primitives, but you could use the same architecture to prove similar concepts for more traditional web services workloads that do not use WASM (just change the EC2 user data and the Dockerfile to accommodate your own generic web service).