Re:Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control pl...
by jitl on Saturday May 02, 2026 @09:56AM
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Wow, this is super cool. It almost feels like a DIY pocket-Cloudflare. I’m curious how a WASM binary gets mapped to HTTP endpoints that take JSON, how much of that is Pollen vs Extism? Are the routes encoded in the WASM binary somehow?
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Re:Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control pl...
by sambigeara on Saturday May 02, 2026 @12:52PM
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Ha, thanks! The routing is all Pollen. You reach the workloads through the gRPC control API (exposed on a socket on the host) via a `pln call seed_name function_name payload` or with a more traditional gRPC client. But once they're in, it routes them to a keyed WASM instance of that given seed on whatever node happens to be hosting it at that moment.