Partners, Press and Perf - Spring Tour 2025 Wrap-Up
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It’s been an exhilarating spring season for our team at Fermyon - coming off a four week whirlwind of of product launches, industry conferences, and customer engagements as we continue to demonstrate the transformative power of WebAssembly compute in modern cloud environments.
Here’s a recap of our recent updates:
Partnerships: Expanding WebAssembly’s Reach
We’re seeing more and more adoption and application of WebAssembly solutions across the industry, with increasing customer use cases around highly-distributed, highly scalable lightweight compute scenarios.
Fermyon + Akamai: Revolutionizing Edge Capabilities
On March 27, we proudly announced our collaboration with Akamai to launch Fermyon Wasm Functions. This groundbreaking partnership delivers next-generation edge computing capabilities through serverless WebAssembly, offering unprecedented performance improvements for organizations looking to optimize their edge computing strategy. Early adopters are already reporting significant reductions in cold start times and improved resource utilization.
Fermyon + Google Cloud: Setting New Performance Benchmarks
Our technical demonstration with Google Cloud on April 9 showcased remarkable scaling capabilities on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The metrics speak for themselves: our WebAssembly-powered workloads demonstrated startup times up to 100x faster than traditional containerized applications while maintaining exceptional throughput under heavy load conditions. This collaboration highlights the growing enterprise adoption of WebAssembly as a core technology for cloud-native applications.
Microsoft Azure: Strategic Alignment
In a significant industry development, Microsoft’s AKS team announced the deprecation of WASI nodepools on March 27, pivoting instead to SpinKube support. This strategic shift further validates our approach to cloud-native WebAssembly solutions and strengthens SpinKube’s position as the leading implementation for WebAssembly workloads in Kubernetes environments.
Open Source Momentum
Our commitment to the open source community continues to bear fruit. Both Spin and SpinKube have now been officially included in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) landscape, marking an important milestone in the maturation of WebAssembly in cloud computing.
These projects received considerable attention during technical sessions at Wasm IO 2025 and KubeCon EU 2025 in London. The developer enthusiasm was palpable, with standing-room-only attendance at several of our workshops and presentations.
We’ll be publishing video recordings of these sessions in the coming weeks - watch this space!
Spring Press:
Looking Ahead
Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, we invite you to join our growing community of developers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with WebAssembly.