The Forge runtime is the engine for a new generation of marketplace apps, but tackling compute-heavy tasks often feels quite daunting. This session is for every developer who wants to get more out of those precious GB-seconds on the Forge runtime. We'll look at the real-life example of how we added Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to a production app and how developers can use WASM to speed up computation on Forge.

This is a performance session built on our own production experience: How we built it, what went well, what did not go well at all, and what we would not do again. Attendees will walk away with a proven roadmap for identifying, benchmarking, and implementing WASM to solve high-performance challenges, allowing them to get the most out of Forge's runtime.

Key takeaways:

• A practical roadmap for running complex WASM modules within a Forge function
• Decision framework for identifying when WASM is necessary for high-performance tasks