Matt Butcher

Matt Butcher

@technosophos.bsky.social

CEO of @fermyon.com. Creator of Helm and the Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes. Fan of delicious coffee. Author of a bunch of books. WebAssembly enthusiast. Colorado resident. Fermyon.com

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squillace
@squillace.bsky.social

I might be even more thrilled for the entire @fermyon.com and #Akamai teams here than they are. Akamai has realized that it could put together a next-gen cloud native platform that both enables and pushes a huge amount of work far, far closer to the users than ever. And Fermyon....

Fermyon@fermyon.com

Today, we are super thrilled to announce that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies. Fermyon’s vision of building the next generation of serverless computing slots perfectly into Akamai’s own vision for the future of edge technology. www.fermyon.com/blog/fermyon...

fermyon.comFermyon Joins AkamaiAnnouncing that Fermyon is now part of Akamai Technologies.
Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

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.

Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

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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Matt Butcher
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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).

Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

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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Matt Butcher
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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.

Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

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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Matt Butcher
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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.

Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

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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Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

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.

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wasmVision
@wasmvision.com

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

wasmvision.comwasmVision HomewasmVision 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...

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nickeberts
@nickeberts.dev

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@technosophos.bsky.social

It is fair to say that we at @fermyon.com are fanatical about compute performance and scaling. But working with the GKE team’s new Autopilot VM scaling has helped us achieve load adaptive scaling from the VM through Kubernetes and on into Fermyon Platform. It’s wow www.fermyon.com/blog/scaling...

fermyon.comScaling Smarter: Maximizing Density and Efficiency with Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes and GKE AutopilotUnlock faster, more efficient autoscaling by combining GKE Autopilot with Fermyon's Platform for Kubernetes high-density WebAssembly runtime—scaling thousands of apps per node without overprovisioning...

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Fermyon
@fermyon.com

New blog post: how GKE's Autopilot and our Platform for Kubernetes can deliver exceptional performance while optimizing costs — without the operational overhead of traditional containerized architectures. www.fermyon.com/blog/scaling...

fermyon.comScaling Smarter: Maximizing Density and Efficiency with Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes and GKE AutopilotUnlock faster, more efficient autoscaling by combining GKE Autopilot with Fermyon's Platform for Kubernetes high-density WebAssembly runtime—scaling thousands of apps per node without overprovisioning...
Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

It is fair to say that we at @fermyon.com are fanatical about compute performance and scaling. But working with the GKE team’s new Autopilot VM scaling has helped us achieve load adaptive scaling from the VM through Kubernetes and on into Fermyon Platform. It’s wow www.fermyon.com/blog/scaling...

fermyon.comScaling Smarter: Maximizing Density and Efficiency with Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes and GKE AutopilotUnlock faster, more efficient autoscaling by combining GKE Autopilot with Fermyon's Platform for Kubernetes high-density WebAssembly runtime—scaling thousands of apps per node without overprovisioning...

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Veikko Eeva
@veikkoeeva.bsky.social

Replying to @technosophos.bsky.social

I suppose taking on Cloudflare Workers is (and AWS and Azure) are good points to make. As a CloudFlare Workers user I'd be interested on how could I deploy non-WASM loads like static web pages to this and pass traffic through to API. Or deploy e.g. a .NET Api to edge. The whole flow, so to speak. :)

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Carl Sverre
@f0a.org

What if your app could combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication? Meet Graft: lazy, partial, strongly consistent edge replication. #OpenSource #EdgeComputing #Replication sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-s...

sqlsync.devStop syncing everythingDiscover Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine built to solve the challenges of syncing data at the edge. Inspired by lessons from SQLSync, Graft enables lazy, partial, and strongly consi...
Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

Today on VMBlog, Akamai's Ari Weil talks about what they are excited about for #KubeCon next week. @thorstenhans.bsky.social has a really cool AI talk that gets a mention. vmblog.com/archive/2025...

vmblog.comAkamai Reimagines Cloud Infrastructure: How Distributed Computing and AI Inference Are Transforming Kubernetes in 2025 : @VMblogIn this VMblog Q&A ahead of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025, Ari Weil, VP of Product Marketing at Akamai, delivers a compelling vision for the future of cloud-native technologies.
Matt Butcher
@technosophos.bsky.social

Oracle demoed Java->Wasm today at Wasm I/O! (Since I am not there, I had to live vicariously through my colleagues.) My understanding is that not all the code is pushed upstream yet, but will be soon. I, for one, am hugely stoked about the workloads this is going to unlock.

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Fermyon
@fermyon.com

Say hello to Fermyon Wasm Functions ⚡️ Incredibly fast serverless compute, running on Akamai's global cloud network.

Matt Butcher@technosophos.bsky.social

The world's fastest serverless functions on the worlds largest distributed network! Super excited that today Akamai and @fermyon.com released Wasm Functions. www.fermyon.com/blog/introdu...

fermyon.comIntroducing Fermyon Wasm Functions on AkamaiToday we are debuting Fermyon Wasm Functions. This new globally hosted and managed service runs within the Akamai Cloud and delivers absolutely mind-boggling performance

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cloudnativeboy.bsky.social
@cloudnativeboy.bsky.social

Just heard today, Microsoft has sunset their earlier Wasm AKS runtime in favor of the #CNCF SpinKube project. Fermyon, Microsoft, SUSE, LiquidReply -> SpinKube. That mean you need to invest & learn more, listen to @technosophos.bsky.social about its origin and adaptation, youtu.be/qUq8IburFEE

youtu.beSpinKube Framework for Running WebAssembly Workloads On Kubernetes | Ep 118YouTube video by Cloud Native Podcast