2021-01-27 JAN

Enhanced reality in the microscope

https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/04/an-augmented-reality-microscope.html

GCP BigQuery Data Visualization (Nicole)

Can BigQuery Data Visualization tools be leveraged for dashboard metrics?

Design Patterns and Gang of Four (Daniel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns

https://springframework.guru/gang-of-four-design-patterns/

WebAssembly news

rust vs go (Jonas, Jeya, Daniel ...)

• Wasm Vs. JS (https://dzone.com/articles/webassembly-vs-javascript-is-wasm-faster-than-js-w)

TL;DR:

• Wasm is preferred when performance is critical (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with-rust-and-webassembly/ ).

• Creates a polyglot development environment.

• Faster to download and execute (suited for federated learning).

• WASI (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/WASI-intro.md; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh9WXPu0hw8) provides APIs to interface with an OS (e.g., filesystems, networking, etc.).

• JS+Wasm works well.

• Supported languages when compiling to Wasm (https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs)

TL;DR:

• • C, C++, Go, TypeScript, AssemblyScript, Rust are ready for production. JS and Python are work in progress.

• Rust Vs. Rest (https://opensource.com/article/19/2/why-use-rust-webassembly)

TL;DR:

• • Small file sizes are good for transmitting code especially with IoT devices and federated learning. Smallest achievable Go file size: 2 MB. Smallest achievable Rust file size (1.6 KB; without the "--release" optimizations).

    • C, C++, AssemblyScript have reasonably small runtimes too.

  • Ryan Levick (Cloud Advocate; Microsoft): "the reality is that these technologies (Go and C#) will probably always be best for greenfield projects".

  • Rust has better tooling than C/C++ for Wasm (https://rustwasm.github.io/book/).

• Rust adoption

  • Mozilla's project. Built Servo (https://servo.org/) with it.

  • Microsoft backs it heavily.

    • 70% of all security vulnerabilities are removed instantly by Rust (https://github.com/microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/master/presentations/2019_02_BlueHatIL/2019_01%20-%20BlueHatIL%20-%20Trends%2C%20challenge%2C%20and%20shifts%20in%20software%20vulnerability%20mitigation.pdf).

    • Solomon Hykes' nightmare: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-why-we-used-programming-language-rust-over-go-for-webassembly-on-kubernetes-app/

  • AWS recently started a major team to support Rust.

    • Serverless support: https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto

  • Facebook has a dedicated Rust team.

  • GCP adoption is slower.

• Deploy your first Wasm app today: https://webassembly.studio/

Learning from PLCO

Steal UI and beg to box (Lorena)

Pending items

... (I remember I forgot something ;-) )