Zero Cold Starts: Serverless AI Agents on Akamai Functions — Thorsten Hans
Oct 10, 2026AI Engineer
Summary
This post contributes to the field of agentic inference by demonstrating the use of WebAssembly (via Spin) on a globally distributed serverless platform (Akamai Functions) to eliminate cold starts for AI agents and MCP servers. It showcases the development workflow using wasmcp for scaffolding and composition in TypeScript and Rust, testing with MCP Inspector, and one-command global deployment. The talk also touches upon using the Vercel AI SDK for agent creation and memory snapshots for maintaining application state.
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