For starters, WebAssembly provides fine-grained runtime isolation for individual functions. A microservice could have multiple functions and support services running inside a microVM. WebAssembly can make the microservice more secure and more stable .
Second, the WebAssembly bytecode is portable . Even inside a container, NaCl is still dependent on the underlying CPU, OS, and dynamic libraries installed on the OS. WebAssembly bytecode applications are platform-independent. Developers can write once and deploy in any cloud, any container, and any hardware platform.
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