Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

Pollen is a distributed WASM runtime that eliminates traditional orchestration complexity by enabling workloads to self-organize across a zero-trust mesh network with no central control plane—reducing infrastructure dependencies to a single binary deployable on heterogeneous hardware from edge devices to cloud. This architecture fundamentally simplifies distributed computing for IT organizations by replacing complex scheduler management, load balancing, and service discovery infrastructure with gossip-based consensus and peer-to-peer coordination, while maintaining security through cryptographic mTLS authentication. For CIOs, this represents a potential shift toward edge-native, coordinator-free computing models that could significantly reduce operational overhead and infrastructure costs while improving system resilience and partition tolerance.

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Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
Pollen is a distributed WASM runtime that eliminates traditional orchestration complexity by enabling workloads to self-organize across a zero-trust mesh network with no central control plane—reducing infrastructure dependencies to a single binary deployable on heterogeneous hardware from edge devices to cloud. This architecture fundamentally simplifies distributed computing for IT organizations by replacing complex scheduler management, load balancing, and service discovery infrastructure with gossip-based consensus and peer-to-peer coordination, while maintaining security through cryptographic mTLS authentication. For CIOs, this represents a potential shift toward edge-native, coordinator-free computing models that could significantly reduce operational overhead and infrastructure costs while improving system resilience and partition tolerance.