Akamai expands edge compute footprint with Fermyon’s WebAssembly stack
Akamai announced the acquisition of Fermyon, a serverless WebAssembly (Wasm) function-as-a-service (FaaS) vendor.
The deal is designed to strengthen Akamai’s edge computing offerings and give companies new ways with which they can create edge-native applications that deliver more cost-effective alternatives to cloud-native apps.
Fermyon’s technology will be integrated with Akamai’s platform and streamline the use-cases for deployment of AI and other capabilities at the edge.
“Fermyon’s FaaS capabilities, combined with Akamai’s cloud, will make it even easier for developers to innovate and execute lightweight code at the edge,” says Adam Karon, chief operating officer and general manager, Cloud Technology Group, Akamai Technologies. “As Akamai continues to expand compute from core data centers to the edge of the internet, this technology will give developers a broad continuum of cloud native and serverless options to build and deploy their next great application.”
Fermyon is a leader in serverless functions and WebAssembly, the open source projects of which it’s been maintaining include Spin as well as SpinKube, Akamai plans on supporting these moving forward. Fermyon’s employees, including its co-founders, will become part of Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group and continue to advance serverless technologies.
The deal will enhance the integration of Akamai’s edge functions platform with its performance and security offerings. Akamai does not anticipate any material financial impact of the acquisition in 2025.
This aligns with Akamai’s efforts to extend its cloud computing offerings and help developers create secure, high-performance applications at the edge. Akamai recently extended AI inference to the edge with NVIDIA infrastructure.
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Akamai | edge computing | FaaS | Fermyon | Kubernetes | serverless computing | WebAssembly
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