Name: Defense in Depth: High Speed Cloud Native With Soft- and Hardware Protected Functions - Ralph Squillace, Microsoft
Start: 2025-08-26T11:55:00+0200
End: 2025-08-26T12:35:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

G001-002

GitHub is one of the largest (if not the largest) open-source code repositories in the world, but its growth creates technical challenges: How can it continue to scale up activities at its rate of growth? How can it protect activities from each other if one uses code with a malicious attack in it?

This talk describes a fun experiment using the CNCF project Hyperlight and WebAssembly (wasm) components to investigate radical scaling of GitHub events using WebAssembly Components to both handle heavy event load on smaller, less costly VMs but at the same time use Hyperlight to provide hardware protection to each individual function.

WebAssembly is a form of “cloud native binary” that runs on almost any operating system and architecture. The emerging wasm component model is a series of standards that enables any language to make use of components written in any other language while radically scoping in the capabilities of a function, giving it only the permissions to execute that the host deems necessary.

When combined with the Hyperlight project, it becomes possible to use security-in-depth features to scale compute far more with far less risk.

Speakers

Ralph Squillace

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

Professionally trained in history; don't tell him, because he's professionally suffered in distributed applications for the past 20 years or so. A veteran of OSS wars inside the megacorp, he's thrived as the world changed. He runs Ubuntu at work, except for those times when he does... Read More →

Tuesday August 26, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G001-002

Cloud & Containers

Audience Experience Level Any

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Ralph Squillace

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