Tangent: High-Performance Stream Processing Toolkit with WASM Sandbox and DSL-Free Plugin Architecture
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ethanblackburn
Pulled from the oven just right. Trustworthy, fact-dense, deeply satisfying.
Summary
Tangent is a high-performance stream processing toolkit that enables users to write and share plugins (user-defined functions) without requiring domain-specific languages (DSLs). The system runs plugins in a lightweight WebAssembly (WASM) sandbox for near-native speed and language flexibility, avoiding vendor-locked runtimes. It's designed for easy creation and sharing of common data transformations, such as converting GuardDuty findings to OCSF format.
Key quotes
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Plugins run in a lightweight WASM sandbox with near-native speed and full language flexibility — no DSLs, no vendor-locked runtimes.
Perfect for vibe-coding those pesky log transformations.
Plugins are designed to be shareable, so common transformations (e.g. GuardDuty findings → OCSF) can be written once and reused.
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