Edge WebAssembly (Wasm) in Production: Beyond Docker with WASI 0.2, Component Model, and Sub-Millisecond Cold Starts
A deep architectural exploration of WebAssembly (Wasm) on the edge and backend: why WASI 0.2 and the Component Model are replacing microservice container pods, achieving sub-millisecond cold starts (<0.5ms), and enabling cross-language binary composability.