--- title: Livin’ on the Edge: Why WebAssembly Belongs in CDNs description: WebAssembly is a strong serverless technology for edge computing, providing a secure runtime, access to system resources, and multi-language support. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/livin-on-the-edge-why-webassembly-belongs-in-cdns-yggup3psj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Livin’ on the Edge: Why WebAssembly Belongs in CDNs | daily.dev og:description: WebAssembly is a strong serverless technology for edge computing, providing a secure runtime, access to system resources, and multi-language support. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/livin-on-the-edge-why-webassembly-belongs-in-cdns-yggup3psj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Yggup3pSj.png og:image:alt: Livin’ on the Edge: Why WebAssembly Belongs in CDNs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Livin’ on the Edge: Why WebAssembly Belongs in CDNs **[Cloud Native Now](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudnativenow)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary WebAssembly is a strong serverless technology for edge computing, providing a secure runtime, access to system resources, and multi-language support. It enables the deployment of serverless functions at the edge with minimal memory usage and near-instant startup times. Kubernetes can now schedule WebAssembly, making it easier to deploy serverless style applications to the CDN edge. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#webassembly](https://daily.dev/tags/webassembly), [#edge-computing](https://daily.dev/tags/edge-computing) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/livin-on-the-edge-why-webassembly-belongs-in-cdns-yggup3psj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Livin’ on the Edge: Why WebAssembly Belongs in CDNs","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/livin-on-the-edge-why-webassembly-belongs-in-cdns-yggup3psj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/livin-on-the-edge-why-webassembly-belongs-in-cdns-yggup3psj"},"datePublished":"2024-04-17T12:03:30.619Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"WebAssembly is a strong serverless technology for edge computing, providing a secure runtime, access to system resources, and multi-language support. It...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4fabe4917bd7b4f0ebc1c6996ab96279?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4fabe4917bd7b4f0ebc1c6996ab96279?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Cloud Native Now","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Cloud Native Now","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/8acc1ecd93ce4299b615252f32d78de5","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/cloudnativenow"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/livin-on-the-edge-why-webassembly-belongs-in-cdns-yggup3psj","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"kubernetes,serverless,webassembly,edge-computing","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cloud Native Now","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/cloudnativenow"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Livin’ on the Edge: Why WebAssembly Belongs in CDNs"}]} ```