Serverless 2.0: Unlocking Performance and Portability with WebAssembly

Authors

  • Satya Teja Muddada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.4130

Keywords:

WebAssembly Integration, Serverless Computing Evolution, Edge-First Architecture, Polyglot Runtime Support, Cold Start Optimization

Abstract

Serverless computing has transformed the development of applications in the cloud since it abstracts the infrastructure operation, enabling it to scale itself automatically. Legacy Function-as-a-Service offerings have been characterized by severe constraints such as high cold start delay, runtime constraints, language bias, and performance flooding, making them inapplicable in latency-sensitive and distributed applications. WebAssembly has become a groundbreaking platform to overcome these issues by creating a lightweight binary instruction, close-to-native speed execution, and a computer-independent compilation target platform. This article presents the idea of Serverless 2.0, which is an enacted paradigm of incorporating WebAssembly modules in serverless computing to achieve enhanced performance aspects without compromising operational simplicity. The architecture makes polyglot development and deployment easy, as it replaces language-specific execution engines with single-execution engines of WebAssembly. Patterns like edge-first deployment use the WebAssembly small footprint when local distributed computing would be effective, making computation closer to the data sources and end users. The extensive benchmarking can be shown to have made significant gains in various key measures, and cold start latency gains, a higher runtime performance, as well as better resource usage are dwelt upon in the above expounded. The combination is supporting new architectural patterns that were once impractical with traditional serverless frameworks, and should not only be limited to straightforward event-driven processing, but can be intensely real-time, application-latency-compromised, and globally distributed applications. Regardless of the remaining room to improve in the areas of tooling maturity and debugging support, WebAssembly-based serverless computing is an important advancement in cloud-native architecture, with promising performance benefits when it comes to cloud-critical and multi-cloud applications.

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Published

2025-10-16

How to Cite

Satya Teja Muddada. (2025). Serverless 2.0: Unlocking Performance and Portability with WebAssembly. International Journal of Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.4130

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Research Article