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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Thanks! We're all super excited to continue both the open source work and the hosted serverless Wasm functions on Akamai.

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I might be even more thrilled for the entire @fermyon.com and #Akamai teams here than they are. Akamai has realized that it could put together a next-gen cloud native platform that both enables and pushes a huge amount of work far, far closer to the users than ever. And Fermyon....

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Fermyon @fermyon.com · 01/12/2025

Today, we are super thrilled to announce that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies. Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology. www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...

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Fermyon Joins Akamai

Announcing that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies.

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Fermyon @fermyon.com · 22/05/2025

Looking for a summer internship? Our team is opening 3 roles for Summer 2025: * Solutions Engineer Intern * Software Engineer Intern (x2) Learn more via www.fermyon.com/jobs/index

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Fermyon Technologies

See current open roles for joining the Fermyon team.

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 07/05/2025

Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

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Build Edge Native Apps With WebAssembly

Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yup, you are right. I just got all three working great on Apple Calendar, both desktop and iPhone! Thanks.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I've been playing a new video game today. It's called, "Try to sync your work Office, personal iCloud, and family Google calendars." It's pretty hard. So far after several hours I am still failing level 1.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I vaguely remember going to one in Santa Clara or San Jose or something. But only once or twice. The Presidio office was pretty, but I think they closed it soon after the Healtheon acquisition.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Technically I was in Presidio, but since they let us travel whenever, I spent a lot of time at PDX.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I really enjoyed this one. That was such a formative time for me, and hearing @richburroughs.dev talk about it just made me smile.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rich mentions how we all worked on like a handful of Solaris boxes. Development there was largely done by telneting (and later SSHing) into a development server and working on the code using either vim or emacs (or nano).

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I also have this vague memory of an early Facebook group called "WebMD Said I'm Going To Die" that was basically all of the funny ways you could get from the symptom checker to a fatal diagnosis.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I think the name of the company that WebMD merged with was Healtheon. (So many mergers and acquisitions happened that I don't remember which one was the one that Rich is talking about here.)

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

WebRN was like a mini-portal at WebMD that was designed specifically for nurses. I don't think it survived even to the end of 2000.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Microsoft thing that Rich talks about is the reason why WebMD's ontological search engine (a cool early AI thing) never saw the light of day, because we wrote it all in Java and it could not be ported to IIS.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The web server that we ran there (the one Rich mentions) was written by none other than Lee Boynton, one of the original creators of Java. Lee wrote the first version of the site in Python, but it wasn't scalable enough at that time, so we all reimplemented it in Java.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This is wild! I was also at WebMD at the same time (working on their ontology-powered search engine, then on WebRN). And hearing Rich talk about it reminds me of what a ride it was.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Have you looked at the WASI Component Model? That may be what you’re looking for.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Yes. A lot of people. Like tens, if not hundreds, of thousands. It’s in cars, IoT devices, etc. SpinKube has like 80k downloads, and Soin is above half a million. We run around 4K apps in Fermyon Cloud. While not all of those are in prod, a lot are and have been for years.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I agree. The entire .NET ecosystem is actually on the avant-garde of WebAssembly. In addition to the Blazor work, the .NET team has done some awesome stuff. Here, for example, is how we used Aspire. www.fermyon.com/blog/observi...

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Observing Spin Apps with OpenTelemetry and the .NET Aspire Dashboard

Learn how to observe your Spin apps using the otel plugin for Spin and the .NET Aspire Dashboard.

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Radu Matei @radu-matei.com · 23/04/2025

@thorstenhans.bsky.social walks through using @hono.dev with Spin to build serverless #Wasm apps, now with a new template. Hono has been really cool to build with! www.fermyon.com/blog/hono-ro...

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Routing in Spin Apps with Hono

Build full-fledged HTTP APIs with the Hono Router with Spin's new SDK and TypeScript

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wasmVision @wasmvision.com · 22/04/2025

wasmVision 0.4 is out & our biggest release yet! - 21 vision models - face detection+object tracking+more - Save to data stores BoltDB/Redis/NATS - New website w/ docs+tutorial to get started wasmvision.com #computerVision #openCV #webassembly #wasm #golang #tinygo #rust #clang #vision #dnn

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wasmVision Home

wasmVision Get going with computer vision Get Started See the code wasmVision is a high-performance computer vision processing engine that includes advanced algorithms and vision models for machine le...

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Luke @lukehedger.dev · 19/04/2025

We’ve definitely struggled with defining the term “serverless” for a while now. This article from 2022 by @technosophos.bsky.social sums it up! www.fermyon.com/blog/serverl... The best definition I have in 2025 is… Serverless = managed distributed systems

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"The Akamai-Fermyon partnership strategically positions both companies as leaders in the rapidly expanding market of serverless edge computing." - theCUBE Research thecuberesearch.com/akamai-and-f...

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Akamai and Fermyon Redefine Edge-Native with WebAssembly - theCUBE Research

Akamai and Fermyon partner to launch WebAssembly-powered serverless and AI solutions, cutting latency and simplifying deployment at the edge.

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 04/04/2025

Another great day at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon EU! 🙌 Today we had great convos with Amanda Katona (NetApp), Nic Slattery (Google Cloud) and Jesse Butler (AWS), @vaikas.bsky.social (Chainguard), Andrew Wafaa (Arm), @technosophos.bsky.social ( @fermyon.com ) and Jon Alexander (Akamai)!

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nickeberts @nickeberts.dev · 10/04/2025

It’s one thing to get to help friends out. Even better when the result is so. Fucking. Good. Go find a Fermyon and ask them for a demo of their platform on GKE. You won’t be disappointed

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Cynthia Dunlop @cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Next up in our tech blogger spotlight project: philosopher / Helm co-creator /serial book author / Fermyon co-founder Matt Butcher ( @technosophos.bsky.social ) writethatblog.substack.com/p/matt-butch...

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Fermyon @fermyon.com · 09/04/2025

New blog post: how GKE's Autopilot and our Platform for Kubernetes can deliver exceptional performance while optimizing costs — without the operational overhead of traditional containerized architectures. www.fermyon.com/blog/scaling...

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Scaling Smarter: Maximizing Density and Efficiency with Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes and GKE Autopilot

Unlock faster, more efficient autoscaling by combining GKE Autopilot with Fermyon's Platform for Kubernetes high-density WebAssembly runtime—scaling thousands of apps per node without overprovisioning...

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It is fair to say that we at @fermyon.com are fanatical about compute performance and scaling. But working with the GKE team’s new Autopilot VM scaling has helped us achieve load adaptive scaling from the VM through Kubernetes and on into Fermyon Platform. It’s wow www.fermyon.com/blog/scaling...

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Scaling Smarter: Maximizing Density and Efficiency with Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes and GKE Autopilot

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I’m out at the NAB Show this week with several other @fermyon.com folks. We’ll be hanging out at the Akamai lounge to demo some fun edge AI. www.fermyon.com/blog/nab-sho...

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Fermyon at the NAB Show in Las Vegas 2025

We will be attending our first NAB Show in Las Vegas as part of our newly announced partnership with Akamai.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I super love the bold and bright booth backdrop for this year’s #KubeCon. @ronan.design is awesome.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We’re showcasing @fermyon.com Wasm Functions at Akamai’s booth during #KubeCon. Here’s @thorstenhans.bsky.social doing a demo.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Super excited to be talking about Wasm Functions, our edge collab with Akamai, at #KubeCon this week. Here’s the scoop, straight from the Akamai blog: www.akamai.com/blog/cloud/u...

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Veikko Eeva @veikkoeeva.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I suppose taking on Cloudflare Workers is (and AWS and Azure) are good points to make. As a CloudFlare Workers user I'd be interested on how could I deploy non-WASM loads like static web pages to this and pass traffic through to API. Or deploy e.g. a .NET Api to edge. The whole flow, so to speak. :)

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Static sites are pretty straightforward. Essentially, we just have a file server module. .Net apps have to be compiled to Wasm (newest .Net can do this). developer.fermyon.com/hub for SSG examples. And @squillace.bsky.social might have the latest on . NET

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Carl Sverre @f0a.org · 31/03/2025

What if your app could combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication? Meet Graft: lazy, partial, strongly consistent edge replication. #OpenSource #EdgeComputing #Replication sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-s...

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Stop syncing everything

Discover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consi...

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squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

@fniephaus.com opens up the #java and #webassembly backed for #grallvm at #wasmio

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フィリイプ @handle.invalid · 28/03/2025

It was the most excited I’ve seen folk about a Java announcement in a while. And finally, the perfect Spring I/O crossover for @sergialmar.com.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Oracle demoed Java->Wasm today at Wasm I/O! (Since I am not there, I had to live vicariously through my colleagues.) My understanding is that not all the code is pushed upstream yet, but will be soon. I, for one, am hugely stoked about the workloads this is going to unlock.

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Matt Butcher @technosophos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Also, when Thorsten's hotel WiFi died at the end, I couldn't end the stream. Hilarity ensued. Next time that happens, I'm going to sing "I'm a little teapot" until @thorstenhans.bsky.social comes back online.

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