The short answer is that WebAssembly is fast, safe, and portable.

WebAssembly, on the other hand, achieves performance on par with C/C++ compiled native binaries (NaCl) while still preserving portability, safety, and manageability associated with high-level language runtimes. WasmEdge is one of the fastest WebAssembly runtime on the market today.

For starters, WebAssembly provides fine-grained runtime isolation for individual functions. A microservice could have multiple functions and support services running inside a microVM. WebAssembly can make the microservice more secure and more stable .

Second, the WebAssembly bytecode is por...

Serverless functions save developers a ton of trouble managing the backend infrastructure. It also simplifies the development process as developers only need to focus on the business logic. This article is a step-by-step guide on how to write and deploy your own WebAssembly serverless functions o...

A recent survey by DataDog found that most AWS Lambda serverless functions are written in JavaScript and Python.

However, it is also well known that those high-level languages are very slow. In fact,