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wasmCloud Blog
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wasmCloud Blog is the company blog at wasmcloud.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2022, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “WASM-Native Orchestration”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the wasmCloud site and blog, a platform for running WebAssembly components on the server. Linked posts cover a 2025 statement on NATS and a Kubernetes operator for wasmCloud.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
wasmCloud is the leading WebAssembly application platform for platform engineering teams — Sandbox Vibe Coded Apps, Functions, Agents, Triggers, Apps, and more on Kubernetes.
Most-linked posts?
- WASM-Native Orchestration9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-08-06
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-08
- Statement on proposed changes to CNCF NATS.io licensing and ownership2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-25
- Globally Distributed WebAssembly Applications with WasmCloud and NATS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- /blog/2024-10-22-webassembly-adoption-telco-manufacturing-tech/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-14
What Hacker News says?
https://wasmer.io/ https://wasmcloud.com/ https://wasmtime.dev/
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on “Sqlite3 WebAssembly”Submitted WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters as a story · 134 points
HN discussionI recently found Nex in the context of Wasmcloud [0] and ability for it to support long-running tasks/workflows. Impression that indeed Nex needs a good time to mature still. There was also a talk [1] about using Temporal here. For Hatchet it may be interesting to check it out (note: I am not affiliated with Wasmcloud, nor currently using it). [0] https://wasmcloud.com [1] https://www.temporal.io/replay/videos/zero-…
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on “Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue”Submitted WASM-Native Orchestration as a story · 102 points
HN discussionI started out with linode, a decade ago. It became much more expensive than AWS, because it bundled the hard drive space with the RAM. Couldn't scale one without scaling the other. It was ridiculous. AWS has a bunch of startup credits you can use, if you're smart. But if you want free hosting, nothing beats just CloudFlare. They are literally free and even let you sign up anonymously with any email. They don't even…
Comment linking /blog/2025-01-15-running-distributed-ml-and-ai-workloads-with-wasmcloud/
on “I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars”Submitted WasmCloud Capabilities Are Managed Algebraic Effects for WebAssembly Functions as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWhy containers when you can have Wasm components on wasmCloud :-)?! https://wasmcloud.com/
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on “What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like”Submitted Compile Go directly to WebAssembly components as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOh it’s certainly looking like that IMO depending on your use case for docker You can run wasm in k8s: https://krustlet.dev/ Docker itself can run wasm: https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/docker-without-containers/ There are a few serverless runtimes based on wasm: https://wasmcloud.com/ A lot of those are powered by wasmtime or WasmEdge. If you’re wanting to be able to just pull down a random app and run it as wasm, tha…
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on “WASM Instructions”Submitted Globally Distributed WebAssembly Applications with WasmCloud and NATS as a story · 9 points
HN discussionFYI https://wasmcloud.com/blog/2025-04-23-statement-on-nats/
Comment linking /blog/2025-04-23-statement-on-nats/
on “Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source”Submitted WasmCloud 1.0: Build / Run WebAssembly Apps in Production on Any Cloud, Any Edge as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGiven where things are going, might be worth learning a bit about https://wasmcloud.com/docs/ecosystem/wasmtime/ also. KVM is very easy to get stared with, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Boxes is also worth digging into. Good luck, hypervisors are really cool!
Comment linking /docs/ecosystem/wasmtime/
on “Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor”Submitted Leptos and WASI 0.2 for full stack WASM development as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile edge functions and durable objects are both excellent examples of technologies that could be built using wasmCloud, they are (assuming we’re talking about either a CDN provider like Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai or Cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP) not readily available in many environments. An example brooksmtownsend linked to elsewhere in the thread is an industrial use case where one of the wasmCloud adopt…
Comment linking /blog/2024-10-22-webassembly-adoption-telco-manufacturing-tech/
on “WASM-Native Orchestration”Submitted WebAssembly Adoption Grows Across the Industry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOne of the principles we do our best to follow as we build wasmCloud is the idea of "compatible with, but not dependent upon", and to that end we do in fact integrate very nicely with Kubernetes. A recent blog post highlighted some of the work we’ve done to provide a Kubernetes Operator for wasmCloud: https://wasmcloud.com/blog/2025-01-09-wasmcloud-operator-bri... This will provide you an equivalent experience to wh…
Comment linking /blog/2025-01-09-wasmcloud-operator-bringing-the-benefits-of-wasm-to-kubernetes/
on “WASM-Native Orchestration”Submitted WebAssembly Interaction Patterns: Command, Reactor, Library as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat's what people do in enterprises because they have security controls and processes around k8s with too much investment. It's a no-go telling people to "just run this binary on this VM/baremetal machine", understandably. We've got a few examples on our website from users that (in my opinion) use wasmCloud more for its strengths as a distributed computing platform. Often there's central k8s infrastructure where wa…
Comment linking /blog/2024-10-22-webassembly-adoption-telco-manufacturing-tech/
on “WASM-Native Orchestration”Submitted WebAssembly and the Road to Ubiquity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've seen this project pop up two or three times in the last few days. I'm really excited about this and wasm in general and spent last night working through the docs page ( https://wasmcloud.com/docs/intro/ ). I set up hello world in TS, Rust and Go and went through the happy path of saying hello world. That was a really nice and encouraging dopamine hit. My biggest critique is once you need to go any further and t…
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on “WASM-Native Orchestration”Submitted WebAssembly Components and WasmCloud Actors: A Glimpse of the Future as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI hadn't really been interested in WebAssembly until I read about the component model and the fact that I can run Wasm components on the server. That led me to wasmCloud[1]. As the article says, Wasm on the server isn't a winner yet, but it has a chance. [1] https://wasmcloud.com
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on “WebAssembly: Yes, but for What?”Submitted Statement on proposed changes to CNCF NATS.io licensing and ownership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWebassembly is the way forward. Why create a new language when you can use any language though WASM. It is already built around capabilities and you can implement an actor system easily, something that has already been done ( https://wasmcloud.com/ ) for the backend.
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on “'The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it’ Douglas Crockford”Submitted Build native WebAssembly components with .NET and C# – and deploy on wasmCloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCurious too. I follow Lunatic [0] as a candidate for future use, and also wasmCloud [1]. [0] https://lunatic.solutions/ [1] https://wasmcloud.com
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on “Async Rust Is A Bad Language”Submitted WasmCloud 0.78.0 adds support for WASI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot nearly as ambitious as wasmCloud[1]. Fermyon will do simple wasm worker hosting with a "spin deploy" https://www.fermyon.dev has more information about how the underlying platform operates on their end. Nomad is mentioned but not the VM of choice that will underpin the cold-start times they boast of. e.g. SecondStateVM(wasmEdge) claims fastest 20ms cold-start [2] [1] https://wasmcloud.com/blog/globally_distribut…
Comment linking /blog/globally_distributed_webassembly_applications_with_wasmcloud_and_nats/
on “Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices”Submitted wasmCloud: Develop. Deploy. Distribute as a story · 1 points
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