Fermyon Wasm Functions launched, scaling to 75 million requests per second

Fermyon Technologies announced the General Availability (GA) of Fermyon Wasm Functions, a serverless WebAssembly platform developed in partnership with Akamai. This platform is designed to support up to 75 million requests per second while providing low latency and high reliability, targeting major brands in media, gaming, and commerce.

The integration of Fermyon Wasm Functions allows customers to enhance real-world applications by leveraging the capabilities of edge and cloud-serverless computing. By combining the low-latency performance with cloud scalability, the platform is positioned to meet the demands of high-traffic environments.

Akamai customers utilize Fermyon Wasm Functions to implement various functionalities, including bots prevention, URL redirection, and web page response manipulation. The flexibility provided enables tasks that require fast execution and extensive computation while maintaining a seamless Developer Experience (DevEx).

The collaboration between Fermyon and Akamai aims to enhance performance and portability across customer computing environments. This partnership is part of the broader Spin Framework initiative to enable the development of serverless applications while showcasing Fermyon’s technologies at key industry events.

Matthew Flug, Research Manager at IDC, highlighted the advantages of this combination, emphasizing the capacity for performance enhancement and portability. Jon Alexander, SVP of Cloud Technology at Akamai, noted that the partnership fulfills a significant customer demand for a serverless option within their computing services. Fermyon is focused on empowering developers to streamline the creation of serverless applications effectively.

CEO Matt Butcher stated that the partnership with Akamai reinforces the deployment of performance-critical workloads and reflects a commitment to continued growth in serverless WebAssembly capabilities.