Pollen is a distributed WASM runtime written in Go with no central control plane, using CRDTs for deterministic state consensus and peer-to-peer artifact distribution. The demo shows ~4000 requests/second spread across 5 geographic locations with 10 nodes, with automatic scaling and workload placement based on local state. It supports workloads authored in multiple languages via Extism and offers mesh services with end-to-end mTLS.
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Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
Distributed WASM runtime using CRDT consensus hits 4000 req/s across 10 nodes with no control plane, proving decentralized infrastructure architecture can scale.
Saturday, May 2, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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