Bits & Bytes with Chris Fallin – NGINX Community Chats – Ep. 14

In this series, OSS Technologist Dave McAllister sits down with the NGINX community to discuss what they love about open source. Brought to you by F5! This episode is a Bits & Bytes, where we uncover exciting new projects and technologies that are making waves in the open source tech world. 👾 Today's guest is Chris Fallin, Senior Architect at F5. In this episode, Dave and Chris dive into the details of Cranelift – a fast, secure, and innovative compiler backend from the Bytecode Alliance, designed to compile intermediate program representations to executable machine code. Check out Cranelift: https://cranelift.dev Where to find the NGINX Community: 💚 Website – https://nginx.org 💬 Community Forum – https://community.nginx.org ⭐ GitHub – https://github.com/nginx 🚀 Twitter – https://x.com/nginxorg 🦋 Bluesky – https://bsky.app/profile/nginx.org Where to find F5: 🔴 Website – https://www.f5.com/ 💬 DevCentral – https://community.f5.com/ 🚀 Twitter – https://x.com/F5 Technologies mentioned in this episode: ⬢ WebAssembly – https://webassembly.org ⬢ Wasmtime – https://wasmtime.dev Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:43 - Meet Chris Fallin, Senior Architect at F5 01:31 - The Magic of WebAssembly 05:18 - Cranelift: The Compiler Backend 07:04 - Challenges in Open Source Projects 13:48 - The Future of WebAssembly 16:53 - Getting Started with Open Source 18:29 - How to Contribute to Cranelift 19:13 - Conclusion and Final Thoughts #NGINX #WebAssembly #Wasm #TechTalks #OSS #OpenSource