Matt Butcher

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What’s The State of WASI? Learn about the current state of the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) standard, and the upcoming WASIp3 release

New on the blog today: @technosophos.bsky.social writes about the latest WASI developments

www.fermyon.com/blog/whats-t...

Build Edge Native Apps With WebAssembly Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

Build Edge Native Apps With WebAssembly Edge computing is transforming as more powerful runtimes like WebAssembly enable developers to build entire applications at the distributed edge.

I wrote an article at @thenewstack.io about how Wasm is proving to be the best compute platform for edge computing.

thenewstack.io/build-edge-n...

End the Obsession with Servers Why continue in the dogma that every microservice needs a full-on socket server? Why shoulder more burden, both security-wise and operationally, than we need to? Simplicity is a virtue. We should embr...

Sometimes I get frustrated by unchallenged dogma.

www.fermyon.com/blog/end-obs...

Yup, you are right. I just got all three working great on Apple Calendar, both desktop and iPhone! Thanks.

I've been playing a new video game today. It's called, "Try to sync your work Office, personal iCloud, and family Google calendars." It's pretty hard. So far after several hours I am still failing level 1.

I vaguely remember going to one in Santa Clara or San Jose or something. But only once or twice. The Presidio office was pretty, but I think they closed it soon after the Healtheon acquisition.

Technically I was in Presidio, but since they let us travel whenever, I spent a lot of time at PDX.

I really enjoyed this one. That was such a formative time for me, and hearing @richburroughs.dev talk about it just made me smile.

Rich mentions how we all worked on like a handful of Solaris boxes. Development there was largely done by telneting (and later SSHing) into a development server and working on the code using either vim or emacs (or nano).

I also have this vague memory of an early Facebook group called "WebMD Said I'm Going To Die" that was basically all of the funny ways you could get from the symptom checker to a fatal diagnosis.

I think the name of the company that WebMD merged with was Healtheon. (So many mergers and acquisitions happened that I don't remember which one was the one that Rich is talking about here.)

WebRN was like a mini-portal at WebMD that was designed specifically for nurses. I don't think it survived even to the end of 2000.

The Microsoft thing that Rich talks about is the reason why WebMD's ontological search engine (a cool early AI thing) never saw the light of day, because we wrote it all in Java and it could not be ported to IIS.

The web server that we ran there (the one Rich mentions) was written by none other than Lee Boynton, one of the original creators of Java. Lee wrote the first version of the site in Python, but it wasn't scalable enough at that time, so we all reimplemented it in Java.

This is wild! I was also at WebMD at the same time (working on their ontology-powered search engine, then on WebRN). And hearing Rich talk about it reminds me of what a ride it was.

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Discoveries Egyptian Imports launched a new website today. They work directly with Egyptian artisan families.

egyptianimports.com

Spin JS/TS Router Showdown: Hono vs Itty vs Manual Routing Compare the performance of Hono, Itty Router, and manual routing in JavaScript/TypeScript Spin apps. See how routing choices impact RPS, latency, and why Rust delivers the fastest Spin APIs.

Hono, Itty, and manual routing in Spin JS/TS apps

www.fermyon.com/blog/spin-js...

Have you looked at the WASI Component Model? That may be what you’re looking for.

Yes. A lot of people. Like tens, if not hundreds, of thousands. It’s in cars, IoT devices, etc. SpinKube has like 80k downloads, and Soin is above half a million. We run around 4K apps in Fermyon Cloud. While not all of those are in prod, a lot are and have been for years.

Observing Spin Apps with OpenTelemetry and the .NET Aspire Dashboard Learn how to observe your Spin apps using the otel plugin for Spin and the .NET Aspire Dashboard.

I agree. The entire .NET ecosystem is actually on the avant-garde of WebAssembly.

In addition to the Blazor work, the .NET team has done some awesome stuff. Here, for example, is how we used Aspire.

www.fermyon.com/blog/observi...

Routing in Spin Apps with Hono Build full-fledged HTTP APIs with the Hono Router with Spin's new SDK and TypeScript

@thorstenhans.bsky.social walks through using @hono.dev with Spin to build serverless #Wasm apps, now with a new template.

Hono has been really cool to build with!

www.fermyon.com/blog/hono-ro...

GraalVM (Finally) Gets Java for WebAssembly Up until now, Java has been neglected, as WebAssembly modules have been more conducive with C and C++, Rust and Go, and now even Python is embedded as an interpreter.

Good article on the news about Java-to-Wasm compilation.

thenewstack.io/graalvm-fina...

wasmVision Home wasmVision Get going with computer vision Get Started See the code wasmVision is a high-performance computer vision processing engine that includes advanced algorithms and vision models for machine le...

wasmVision 0.4 is out & our biggest release yet!

- 21 vision models - face detection+object tracking+more
- Save to data stores BoltDB/Redis/NATS
- New website w/ docs+tutorial to get started

wasmvision.com

#computerVision #openCV #webassembly #wasm #golang #tinygo #rust #clang #vision #dnn

We’ve definitely struggled with defining the term “serverless” for a while now. This article from 2022 by @technosophos.bsky.social sums it up! www.fermyon.com/blog/serverl...

The best definition I have in 2025 is…

Serverless = managed distributed systems

Akamai and Fermyon Redefine Edge-Native with WebAssembly - theCUBE Research Akamai and Fermyon partner to launch WebAssembly-powered serverless and AI solutions, cutting latency and simplifying deployment at the edge.

"The Akamai-Fermyon partnership strategically positions both companies as leaders in the rapidly expanding market of serverless edge computing." - theCUBE Research

thecuberesearch.com/akamai-and-f...

Another great day at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon EU! 🙌 Today we had great convos with Amanda Katona (NetApp), Nic Slattery (Google Cloud) and Jesse Butler (AWS), @vaikas.bsky.social (Chainguard), Andrew Wafaa (Arm), @technosophos.bsky.social ( @fermyon.com ) and Jon Alexander (Akamai)!

It’s one thing to get to help friends out. Even better when the result is so. Fucking. Good. Go find a Fermyon and ask them for a demo of their platform on GKE. You won’t be disappointed

Matt Butcher on technical blogging

Next up in our tech blogger spotlight project: philosopher / Helm co-creator /serial book author / Fermyon co-founder Matt Butcher ( @technosophos.bsky.social )

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