Lessons learned from my 25-year journey, essential topics for anyone contemplating launching a startup as a founder.

Bringing new team members into the organization who share values.

The most essential effort before you coalesce your founding team or hire your first person.

One of our goals is to be the best place our employees have worked. In 2023, we ranked #9 on the Will Reed Top 100 List for startups.

I predicted that 2023 would be the year of WebAssembly. It was certainly a productive year at Fermyon. But some of the things I am most excited about will come around in 2024.

KubeCon Chicago felt like a celebration. We released Spin 2.0. We got to reconnect with friends we made during our India trip this summer.

How the WebAssembly Component Model is Transforming Software Development.

Exploring tech resources, emphasizing WebAssembly, open-source development, and related communities and events.

IDC Research looks at Fermyon's WebAssembly PaaS and Serverless AI announcement

Discussing common misconceptions about AI-based software through a philosophical thought experiment (or two).

Developers harnessing AI to boost their coding capabilities; an AI Coference 2023 wrap up.

Reflections on the 'Disruptive Tech: Wasm Edition' tour of India.

The roots of serverless can be traced back to CGI in the early nineties. But at this moment, a new generation is emerging. And it is exciting.

On May 15-16, 2023, Fermyon was featured as one of the ten Innovation Showcase finalists at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

We talk about WebAssembly as the next wave of cloud computing. But why do we need another wave of cloud computing. The answer is serverless functions.

What is WebAssembly good for? We all know about its value to the browser. But there are other intriguing cases.

Developers will not fall in love with WebAssembly unless we can utilize one of its core promises: run all kinds of code regardless of the source language. It's been a year since Fermyon launched our Wasm language guide. What have we learned?

Matt chats with Mike Bifulco about cloud native WebAssembly

Thank you for visiting us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022. If you could not attend in person, this article will provide you with official footage and links to resources about Fermyon Cloud, Spin and more.

David Flanagan (rawkode) interviews Matt Butcher and Radu Matei about Fermyon, WebAssembly, and the return of the 1990s

We’ll look at a few ideas of what failure is, apply them to PaaS, and then evaluate whether PaaS has failed. The conclusion is resoundingly clear: PaaS is a highly successful endeavor, alive and well, and likely to be so for quite some time.

WebAssembly is a new enough technology that there are still several risks to consider when adopting. In this post, we cover four such risks.

WebAssembly and Containers are complimentary (this is a blog, about a presentation, that shows how Fermyon uses both as part of the future of WebAssembly)

As a matter of routine business, we have gotten comfortable with overprovisioning our cloud services. We might think that the best solution is to come up with a better way of right-sizing our provisioning. But the best solution might just be underprovisioning.

Members of Suborbital, Cosmonic, and Fermyon jointly discuss why WebAssembly belongs outside the browser.

A year ago, a16z published an article illuminating the true cost of cloud. We are skeptical of their assertion that repatriating to the datacenter is the correct approach. Instead, rethinking microservices will get us farther.

With WebAssembly gaining momentum, a new breed of WebAssembly-specific languages have arrived on the scene. In this post we cover a few of these, including Grain and AssemblyScript

Rather than run an application all the time, what if we could only start it when it was needed, and thus avoid the cloud cost of running unused services? This was the idea behind scale-to-zero. WebAssembly has an answer.

For any ecosystem to grow, it's important for standards to be implemented that establish trust with users within the community. This is the motivation behind the Bytecode Alliance, a non-profit standards setting organization devoted to building secure-by-default software.

Serverless did not quite live up to its promise. But why? Partly, it was never well-defined. Also, the vision overreached the technology available at the time. But things are different now. Has serverless failed or is it about to hit a renaissance?

The recent Log4j attack provides an opportunity to talk about that characteristic and see why WebAssembly is resistant to this kind of attack.

The promise of WebAssembly is that it can be a common runtime for all sorts of languages. But there are differences between how we traditionally write in scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, Ruby) versus compiled languages (C/C++, Go, Rust). In this post, we survey the WebAssembly landscape to see what is happening along these fronts.

It is common to hear WebAssembly compared to Docker Containers (or OCI Containers). What's the difference? We look at the key differences between Wasm and Docker Containers.

Microservices are serving us well in many ways. But in some ways, we can do better. Will microservices v2 be powered by WebAssembly?

What is WebAssembly? Is it the JavaScript killer or a performance tool for the browser? Is it a replacement for Docker? Or a clone of Java? Or is it a better eBPF? Lots of ideas are swirling. So let's get to the heart of the matter.

LibreOffice in WebAssembly (LOWA) is a promising project. But more exciting is what this new project demonstrates about the WebAssembly ecosystem.