> I’m not gonna say it’s gonna replace every use case; it’s clearly not. But for certain high-performance latency-sensitive use cases like trying to deliver feature flags globally to mobile apps, or web apps around the world (that is our use case)… it’s definitely very applicable to this problem
Behind the clickbait headline, a much narrower and reasonable claim.
This is a phenomenon we see over and over with our "Unpopular Opinions" segment. The summary statement is often unpopular, but once you hear out the person's reasoning (unless it's about food or something purely subjective) most people end up agreeing with them.
It's been tough to get _truly_ unpopular opinions (as voted on by Twitter/Mastodon users) represented on the pods.
This article discusses replacing your container/VM backend with a tiny wasm bundle probably run at the edge. The app sees no changes to the API requests it makes.
Behind the clickbait headline, a much narrower and reasonable claim.