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

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

Thorsten Hans shows how to build 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. The talk explains why WebAssembly suits edge-native AI workloads, live-codes MCP servers with wasmcp in TypeScript and Rust, deploys them worldwide with one command, and closes with a Vercel AI SDK agent backed by a Linode GPU model and memory snapshots that keep apps warm.