Much like the Karate Kid, this will be a journey of learning how to use a powerful new technique (namely WASM) to solve your problems without "sweeping the leg".

As a dubious engineer looking at the perennial "it'll be useful next year" WASM, I will cover my journey starting from a new starter in the world of WASM up to deployment along with all the trials and tribulations along the way.

I will go over my successes and failures when attempting to use WASM to solve some of the problems I come up against in the observability space - in this case with the Fluent Bit project but they can be generalised hopefully to a lot of other scenarios.

I will try to weave this narrative together with some Karate Kid references and hopefully keep it entertaining.