Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization. WebAssembly (commonly also ...

Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fermyon Inc., a startup with a function-as-a-service platform based on WebAssembly. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fermyon ...

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Abstract: In serverless inference, complex prediction tasks are executed as workflows, relying on efficient state transfer across multiple functions. Serverless platforms typically deploy each ...

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WebAssembly gives you a way to run code across platforms, including in a web browser, at near-native speeds, and by way of a broad range of languages. Google's Go language compiles directly to ...

WebAssembly's expansion outside the browser has unlocked a host of new benefits in the world of embedded systems and is growing in popularity among developers, given its rapid evolution into a ...

A decade in the making, WebAssembly (Wasm) has been attracting greater attention within the cloud-native software community, given the overall expansion of automated industrial systems and the ...

Uno Platform, a third-party dev tooling specialist that caters to .NET developers, published a report on the state of WebAssembly, addressing some shortcomings in the .NET implementation it would like ...

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...