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Faster Than a Blink: Globally Distributed Wasm Functions on Akamai

Users start noticing lag after just 100 milliseconds (a blink of an eye) making latency a critical challenge for modern, globally distributed applications. In this talk, Kate shares how Akamai and Fermyon partnered to beat that blink, minimizing both network and compute latency by deploying Spin-based WebAssembly functions across the Akamai Cloud. She’ll explore how this architecture enables polyglot, sub-millisecond serverless functions with global availability and lightning-fast responsiveness.

18 minutes
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Kate Goldenring, Senior Software Engineer at Fermyon Technologies, Inc.

Kate Goldenring is a senior software engineer at Fermyon and open source developer in the WebAssembly, Kubernetes, and edge spaces, maintaining CNCF projects Akri, Spin and SpinKube. She serves as co-chair of the CNCF IoT Edge Working Group and the Bytecode Alliance Documentation SIG. Away from the desk, Kate is an avid mountaineer, teaching climbing courses for her local outdoors club.