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Fermyon Technologies announced Fermyon Spin 2.0, which implements the new WebAssembly Component Model to give developers unmatched security and productivity.

With the integration of the WebAssembly (Wasm) Component Model, Spin 2.0 allows developers to implement software components written in multiple languages; makes available untrusted, third-party components that are, by definition, secure; and offers secure-by-default software supply chains.

By leveraging the component model and the sandbox nature of Wasm, Spin 2.0 dramatically reduces attack surfaces and vectors, even those which import/export interfaces. Now, Spin offers security-by-default for developers, giving peace of mind regardless of what components are being utilized.

Spin 2.0 Key Benefits and Features:

- Supply Chain Security: Because each WebAssembly module is sandboxed by default, running untrusted libraries is much safer with Spin 2.0. This gives developers greater assurance and makes it easier to construct safe and productive cloud-native application supply chains.

- Faster Startup and Runtime: By enabling Wasmtime’s pooling allocator, Spin 2.0 represents up to 10x improvement in concurrent processing speeds. For example, a full request for a simple function like “Hello World!” can now be completed in 500 microseconds (compared to 1-2 milliseconds previously).

- Polyglot Programming-By-Default: Software teams face many choices when it comes to programming language - which impacts everything from future scalability and growth to overall performance and hiring talent. The Wasm Component Model was designed so that developers can fully utilize existing code bases and libraries regardless of language. With Spin 2.0 users benefit from this capability, significantly increasing developer productivity and organizational flexibility. For example developers can now link a Rust library into a JavaScript application or a Python library into Go code, enabling true polyglot programming.

- Serverless AI: With Spin 2.0, developers can bring a wide array of Large Language Models (LLMs), combine them with Fermyon’s vector-enabled SQL Database, and use Spin’s Key Value Store for caching. The powerful Spin SDK libraries make it easy to create AI-enabled applications with just a few lines of code.

- Platform Agnostic: Spin 2.0 illustrates the WebAssembly promise as the first to achieve component model interoperability, giving developers freedom of choice when utilizing components and tools. Developers now have assurance that tools will work with Spin 2.0 and any Wasm environments that implement Bytecode Alliance standards.

- Portability: For developers interested in the Wasm Component Model, Spin 2.0 can be run on top of major workload environments such as Kubernetes cluster, Fermyon Cloud, and Docker Desktop. Spin is the primary or supported WebAssembly development tool choice of Docker Desktop, Microsoft, Red Hat, and other leading cloud-native computing organizations. Spin binaries run in all Kubernetes and Docker environments.

- Streaming: Spin 2.0 can be used for high performance data streaming implementations. With streaming, developers can return data as it is processed, a powerful feature when used for AI, video, audio, and large data transformations.

“At Fermyon we are defining the next wave of cloud computing, and we’re using WebAssembly to do it. As seasoned open source leaders, the Fermyon team has taken an active role in creating the standards under W3C and in writing the reference implementations. Spin 2.0 builds upon these standards to provide a developer-oriented production-grade serverless platform. Spin 2.0 and the component model create another giant leap towards this vision for all developers and development organizations,” said Matt Butcher, co-founder and CEO of Fermyon.

Fermyon Spin 2.0 is available now.