Blog Developer Blog Running Serverless Wasm Functions on the Edge with k3s and SpinKube Matt Butcher is the CEO at Fermyon. This information was originally presented at SUSECON 25 by Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon Technologies. Watch the full presentation on YouTube . The cloud computing landscape has evolved through distinct phases: from one-to-one hardware-OS relationships, to virtual machines enabling multiple operating systems per machine, to containers providing lightweight process isolation. Today, we're witnessing the emergence of a fourth paradigm, WebAssembly (Wasm) in the cloud, which is perfectly suited for serverless workloads on Kubernetes. Traditional serverless While containers revolutionized how we package and deploy long-running services like NGINX, PostgreSQL, and API servers, they fall short for serverless workloads. Both virtual machines and containers suffer from the same fundamental limitation: startup times of 12+ seconds, sometimes stretching into minutes.…