# The Scale to Zero Problem

DevFeed: [The Scale to Zero Problem](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-scale-to-zero-problem-15337.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.fermyon.com/blog/scale-to-zero-problem>)

Author: Matt Butcher

Published: 2022-04-04T15:50:21Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Fermyon - Experience the next wave of cloud computing.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/fermyon-experience-the-next-wave-of-cloud-computing.md>)

Topics: [WebAssembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-assembly.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>)

Tags: [application](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

The article introduces the scale-to-zero idea: starting an application only when needed could avoid the cloud cost of running unused services. It states that WebAssembly offers an answer to this problem.

## Source excerpt

Rather than run an application all the time, what if we could only start it when it was needed, and thus avoid the cloud cost of running unused services? This was the idea behind scale-to-zero. WebAssembly has an answer.