Akamai Technologies, the cybersecurity and cloud computing company, has acquired Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly company.
Fermyon is a leader in both serverless functions and WebAssembly and is active in the open-source community. The company maintains the Spin and SpinKube Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open-source projects and is a member of the Bytecode Alliance.
Fermyon’s cloud-native WebAssembly (Wasm) function-as-a-service (FaaS) with Akamai’s globally distributed platform will enable enterprises to build edge-native applications that offer improved performance and lower costs compared to traditional cloud-native apps.
In addition, by acquiring Fermyon, Akamai plans to deepen the integration between the edge functions platform and its performance and security products. The resulting cloud computing platform aims to make it even faster and easier for developers to build, deploy, and secure applications at the edge that outperform cloud-native applications for less money, the same way they can in core data centers today.
Fermyon’s employees, including co-founders Matt Butcher and Radu Matei, will join Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group.
Adam Karon, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Cloud Technology Group, Akamai Technologies, said, “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. 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.”
