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Comment by solardev | Hacker News Reader

I have no idea what this article is saying. It reads like an AI put together a bunch of buzzwords: A quasi-serverless WebAssembly CLI by former Microsofters will free you from Kubernetes and get you a bunch of GitHub stars from women and minorities in different time zones.

Huh?

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Skimming through it, I think they mean they've created a PaaS that would run your code (i.e., platform for "serverless" apps). But under the hood your code will not be started as a docker container & stuff but rather compiled to WASM allowing them to reduce the overhead. They've created an open-source tool for pushing your code to their proprietary platform and it's already got 1000 stars on Github. They are a remote company that, obviously, hires people (including women & minorities) in different time zones. They're using Slack for communication.

So it's just a serverless function running in WASM? The article didn't make that very clear.

> If you’re thinking the solution sounds a lot like serverless, you’re not wrong...

> So the idea was to take the best of serverless and microservices, and combine them on this new platform that mostly removed Kubernetes...

> “What we really wanted was the serverless experience, right?...

Still sounds just like serverless. But it's not? Or it is, and then some? I dunno.

> Spin is an instrumental piece of Fermyon that makes it easy for users to run production workloads with WebAssembly, and it achieved 1,000 GitHub stars within the first six weeks after its release,” according to the company.

Still doesn't tell us what it does...

> using Slack

Lol, definitely the thing I need to know in order to understand a new company & service. They use time zones too? Oh wow, now THAT's innovation. Thanks, TechCrunch...

And apparently this AI generated pitch managed to raise 6M$!

Just wait until you learn about The We Company.

Does that say more about AI or humans?

Maximum cynism has been reached, mission accomplished

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