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> We built a social network for pets. [...] Every story update is appended in a homemade "blockchain" running in WebAssembly in the Lambda worker. Dear God.
by nmilo 4y ago
> We built a social network for pets. [...] Every story update is appended in a homemade "blockchain" running in WebAssembly in the Lambda worker.
Dear God.
- paulgb 4y agoI assume they picked something silly so that they would focus on the actual technical goal (assessing the viability of wasm on AWS) and not getting perfectionistic or bikesheddy about the application itself.
- anitil 4y agoIn a wild twist they become the next tech unicorn
- syrusakbary 4y agoWe even created a $B business plan for PitPet, so it's just a matter of time... https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l4VDbhTeiv1bnUtof3OpVuJhkRzowcVY9f2tEB3I12c/edit#slide=id.p https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l4VDbhTeiv1bnUtof3Op...
- _6zfa 4y agoIt was completely a joke as mentioned in the article :) It's not actually a blockchain, just a very crude linear merkle tree. The point is that pets are appended into the blockchain, and if enough blocks get appended that don't mention your pet's birth hash, your pet is "dead" like tamagotchi. You can read it in the article in detail. It was an absurd application of "blockchain" in order to have a demo app to try to run on AWS Lambda within some hours and it worked! :)