Software Engineer @ Meroxa

Lovro Mažgon

Software Engineer @ Meroxa

Experienced software engineer, startup veteran, and remote work enthusiast. For the past 4 years leading the development on Conduit, an open-source data-streaming project at Meroxa.

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Building a Plugin System with WebAssembly

October 06 2025 - 14:30 (45 min )

Go's native plugin system has existed since 1.8, but it's restrictive and rarely used in real-world projects. While alternatives like HashiCorp's go-plugin offer more flexibility, they come with the overhead of managing separate processes. In this talk, I'll show how we built a lightweight plugin system using WebAssembly (Wasm). We'll explore the architecture, trade-offs, and restrictions of using Wasm for high-performance plugins.

LEVEL: Intermediate

Building a Plugin System with WebAssembly

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