Engineering blog from Adobe developers on Medium, covering WebAssembly, Apache Spark and Iceberg, serverless, open source and performance tuning.
HN commenters cite it as a source of examples, such as Acrobat running on WebAssembly, a platform team scaling guide, and a fast duplicate-filtering tool.
> Not only it costs more, it also does not really mitigate risk and it just gives an excuse to a manager to punt the problem to someone else.
> You can do it in-house, or you can outsource it
You are 100% correct companies should do this AND better yet this is exactly what is referred to as "Buy vs Build"[0]. You keep trying to convince me and others that companies ARE NOT DOING THIS ANALYSIS. I'm telling you that they most certainly are because it's literally what I do for a living (tech strategy consulting). And guess what, the reason companies keep coming back to closed-sourced providers (GitHub, etc.) is because over and over again we conclude it makes financial sense to do so.
> at least throw some money to the developers of the open alternatives as a hedge and eventual way out.
Now, this part is a hilarious suggestion. No one does this or would do this, because it makes zero financial sense.
[0] - https://medium.com/adobetech/when-to-build-vs-buy-enterprise-platform-risks-benefits-and-considerations-fea358449b30
Additional examples of WebAssembly being used at scale that I haven't seen others mention yet:
Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/wall-of-fame/calc-ts-in-excel-for-the-web/
Adobe - https://medium.com/adobetech/acrobat-on-the-web-powered-by-webassembly-782385e4947e
Fastly - https://www.fastly.com/blog/announcing-lucet-fastly-native-webassembly-compiler-runtime
Adobe has a write-up about the impact this has on the Adobe Marketing Cloud:
https://medium.com/adobetech/safari-itp-2-1-impact-on-adobe-experience-cloud-customers-9439cecb55ac
There's a good blog on scaling a platform team and how to keep up with growth. https://medium.com/adobetech/why-do-organizations-need-a-platform-team-910d79893e0a
Relevant, maybe: https://medium.com/adobetech/filtering-duplicates-on-the-command-line-30x-faster-than-sort-uniq-96ca5f7b4277