Building a Distributed Architecture with wasmCloud Hands-on Workshop [Workshop]

Ben Greenberg - Couchbase / Laurent Doguin - Couchbase

wasmCloud is an ideal platform for building distributed systems that scale across cloud and edge environments, thanks to its lightweight actor-based model. In this 2-hour workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying a distributed architecture using wasmCloud.

We’ll start by understanding the core concepts:

• How to design a multi-actor architecture for handling distributed workloads.
• Best practices for deploying actors and capabilities across different environments.
• Strategies for integrating external services and scaling the architecture as demand grows.

You’ll then dive into a practical, step-by-step project:

• Design and deploy a modular system with wasmCloud actors.
• Integrate external services into your architecture using wasmCloud’s capability model.
• Learn how to scale applications dynamically across both cloud and edge environments.

By the end of this workshop, you will have built a complete, distributed architecture and gained a deep understanding in how to implement a similar strategy in your work going forward.