The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathering in Amsterdam provided an opportunity for engineers and developers to hear the latest on container, cloud-native and open-source innovation. The rise of artificial intelligence and its impact on the evolution of DevOps, as well as data governance, were prime topics of discussion during the weeklong event.TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, was on the ground, providing daily coverage from the KubeCon show floor. This included interviews with industry executives and analysts who provided their unique insights into key cloud-native developments and future trends. (* Disclosure below

Making its public debut in 2017, the WebAssembly open standard is designed to facilitate the execution of binary code on the web.For developers, Wasm brings benefits such as streamlining their workflow to remove areas of labor and material resource wastage.“We’re trying to get rid of wastage in all of the software development, and [WebAssembly] was a way to do it,” said Matt Butcher (pictured, right), chief executive officer of Fermyon Technologies Inc. “I think also there were some use cases where writing in a low-level language like Rust or C++ and then compiling it to WebAssembly would help with some of those number-crunching types of operations