Optimizing AI and Agentic Workloads: Enabling AI at Scale with Functions as a Service and WebAssembly

This IDC Perspective discusses optimizing AI and agentic workloads - enabling AI at scale with functions as a service and WebAssembly. Organizations are scrambling to find ways to build, deploy, and manage, AI-powered applications and agents securely and efficiently. The inherent strengths of emerging technologies like functions as a service and WebAssembly make them well suited to provide solutions for specific AI and agentic use cases."As organizations look for secure and efficient methods to manage AI applications and agents, technologies like functions as a service and WebAssembly are emerging as scalable, cost-effective, and secure solutions for specific AI and agentic workloads. While neither will be well suited to be a ubiquitous solution to run all of an organization's AI workloads, the compute methods can help ease the AI burden on organizations and effectively democratize the ability to create AI-powered applications." - Matthew Flug, research manager, Cloud Application Deployment Platforms, IDC