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Akamai Technologies Announces Acquisition of Fermyon

Akamai just made a clear move to sharpen its edge computing game by acquiring Fermyon, a company known for serverless WebAssembly and its work in the open source space. The point is simple. AI workloads are drifting closer to the edge and the old cloud pattern is starting to feel slow and expensive. Fermyon’s Wasm based FaaS slots neatly into Akamai’s global network and gives developers a way to run lighter, faster, cheaper edge native apps instead of bulky cloud native ones. Also Read: Classmethod strengthens Data Stack with Omni partnership The deal also pulls in Fermyon’s leadership and its open source projects like Spin and SpinKube, which will keep running under Akamai. This signals that the edge stack is maturing and starting to look more like a full cloud…