Redpanda has introduced the Redpanda Data Transforms Sandbox, leveraging WebAssembly (Wasm) to enhance its platform from merely providing fast and cost-efficient data streaming to integrating common data processing tasks within streaming pipelines. This marks a significant milestone in Redpanda's collaboration with the Wasm community, aiming to improve the developer experience by simplifying the data preparation process directly within the broker, eliminating the inefficiencies of traditional stream processing pipelines. The sandbox, intended for exploration rather than production, offers a Go-based SDK, a CLI experience, and a Docker container for running transform functions, along with tutorials and comprehensive API documentation. By integrating simple processing tasks in-broker, Redpanda aims to deliver cleaner and more relevant data to downstream consumers while reducing the complexity and performance costs associated with external data processing infrastructures. The introduction of inline transformations represents a shift in data preparation tasks directly into real-time data streams, enhancing the ability to respond to events and creating valuable data products more efficiently. Redpanda invites developers to engage with the sandbox and provide feedback to refine this capability further.