Zero Cold Starts: Serverless AI Agents on Akamai Functions — Thorsten Hans

תקציר מקורי באנגליתCold starts, proprietary SDKs and one-region deployments slow AI apps down. WebAssembly at the edge removes all three. Thorsten Hans, senior developer advocate at Akamai, shows how to build and ship MCP servers and AI agents with Spin, the open-source WebAssembly framework, and run them on Akamai Functions, a globally distributed serverless platform with no cold starts. He explains why WebAssembly on the server is fast, portable and sandboxed by default, then live-codes MCP servers with wasmcp: scaffolding tools in TypeScript and Rust, composing them into a full server, testing with MCP Inspector, deploying it worldwide in about 60 seconds with one command, and calling its tools from the Zed editor. He finishes with an agent built on the Vercel AI SDK, backed by a model on a Linode GPU, an