Neural Systems Weekly

Building Low-Latency Services for Edge Environments with WebAssembly

Edge computing demands a different approach to service design. When your code runs on a gateway, a base station, or a lightweight server near the user, every millisecond matters and every megabyte of overhead counts. Traditional containerised services often feel too heavy, and interpreted scripts can be too slow. WebAssembly at the edge offers a middle path: a portable, sandboxed runtime that starts quickly and executes near-native speeds. The challenge is to build services