Can You Maintain 1000 Apps? WasmCloud & K8s: The Ultimate Golden Template - Liam Randall, Cosmonic
Liam Randall, Cosmonic
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, Liam Randall, founder and CEO of Cosmonic and co-creator of CNCF WASMCloud, addresses a critical challenge facing modern platform engineering teams: the unsustainable burden of maintaining thousands of applications deployed on container orchestrators like Kubernetes. While containers and Kubernetes have revolutionized application deployment, they introduce inherent security, performance, and maintenance complexities that scale poorly, often leading to what Randall terms "the original sin of platform engineering."
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Randall's talk brutally dissects the inherent, unaddressed flaws in container-based platforms – the 'original sin' of distributed maintenance, security by default, and cold start penalties. He doesn't just complain; he presents WebAssembly and the WASMCloud platform harness pattern as a fundamental paradigm shift, offering a path to secure-by-design, high-density, and truly maintainable application architectures. This isn't just theory; it's a concrete, actionable vision for how platform engineering *should* be done, delivered by someone who built the damn thing.