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Thanks for digging in. Would be nice if READMEs opened up with what the thing was and maybe a one or two sentence problem and solution description.

• hosh 2y ago
  Sometimes, it's hard to tell how significant something is, and the creators may not even know until hindsight, let alone articulate it in a concise, accessible way. The initial marketing word usage such as "amazing" put me off at first ("Show me, don't tell me"), as well as how the author(s) poo-poo'ed on Kubernetes. (I've worked on both good and bad usage of K8S, so it isn't always a fairy tale, nor with a bad ending). However, it also read like someone who seemed to have a deeper understanding of infra writing about this, not just a vapid reinvention by someone who works mostly on the front-end, so I kept going with the README. Having said that, while I am a big fan of IPFS, I know there are performance issues with it. (Maybe Tau set up a private IPFS that is only used within the cluster, which may help it work faster). It also sounds like they are working on general container support, not just Webassembly. Overall, if they keep iterating and improving things based on how things work in production, then they'll end up with a fairly robust system.