Should You Care About Fermyon Wasm Functions on Akamai?

Should You Care About Fermyon Wasm Functions on Akamai?

BARCELONA — The release of Fermyon Wasm Functions is a major milestone for WebAssembly, demonstrating its capacity to start, run, and deploy applications in serverless and extending to edge environments the way it was designed to do. However, for most users, the key takeaway is its impact on serverless applications — enabling significantly lower cold start times, measured in milliseconds, which translates to faster load times and enhanced functi…