I work for Fermyon, but have been at a major cloud provider in the past, working with cloud for a decade now.

Spin and Fermyon Cloud is a really nice and easy way to get started: https://developer.fermyon.com/cloud/quickstart. It doesn't introduce a whole lot of the inner workings of a cloud. With a lot of other services you'll fairly quickly get to the point, where you'll have to dive in to concepts of distributed systems and infra.

If you want to work with containers and servers in the cloud, fly.io is really easy to get started with as well.

Fermyon employee here. There's a WASI specification in the works, which is what is used in Spin and Fermyon Cloud: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-keyvalue/

With Spin you can also swap the backend provider. It's using sqlite as the default, but there's a Redis provider as well: https://developer.fermyon.com/spin/dynamic-configuration#key...

Why on earth would you want to commoditize your platform?

If it's a viable option, why not give users the benefit?

This spec describes how to work with the filesystem in WASI (WebAssembly System Interface). That's the spec adopted by Wasmtime, which is the runtime being used by Spin. (Fermyon employee here)

Forgot the link: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-filesystem#introduction

Are you thinking about Firecracker (https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/). If so, one of our colleagues (I work for Fermyon) did touch upon this in a talk at Cloud Native WasmDay recently: https://youtu.be/-cJ_Cn_mgqI?list=PLj6h78yzYM2Pdj8vnO0wfFyKc...

This talk is actually a really nice compendium to the blog post.

Mikkel from Fermyon here.

That's a misunderstanding. Spin runs your webassembly directly from disk. Spin does support distributing application using OCI registries, but they do not run in a container runtime, just a webassembly runtime (Wasmtime).

Ah, I see, thanks!

Version 0.7.0 of the WebAssembly framework Spin just landed.

Throughout December, we'll post a series of challenges for developing Webassembly with Spin. Hope you'll enjoy these fun small challenges.

Hi, Mikkel from Fermyon here.

Both Spin and the Fermyon Platform are open-source projects. Fermyon Cloud is a managed service built on top of the Fermyon Platform.

In comparison with WasmEdge, the WebAssembly runtime used in Spin is Wasmtime, which is also open sourced and built by the Bytecode Alliance.

Hope this expands upon the existing response.

(Hi I'm Mikkel - also from the Service Fabric team)

We are working through this. There are some hard dependencies on internal build systems we need to untangle, but it is coming along.