The document discusses WebAssembly (WASM) and its potential uses beyond browsers. It provides an overview of WASM, including how it produces portable binary files and its performance benefits. It also describes the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) which enables running WASM modules outside browsers. The document explores where WASM is being used, such as with Docker, and how it could fit into existing compute architectures like containers and virtual machines. It presents an experiment running WASM modules on different cloud services to handle HTTP requests.