Well, that’s a good question. I think the best answer for now is “we’ll see”?

I use it in place of Tailscale for some homelab applications. I’ve started to deploy other experiments on a “prod” cluster. The demo I showed shows how Pollen responds to a multi-step pipeline type application; two WASM seeds and a single egress communicating over the provided RPC mechanism (`pln://seed…` etc) whilst handling routing, back pressure and the like.

Right now, the workloads need to be stateless. I’m coming up with a story for state at the moment, which’ll likely start as some WAL-like convergent structure with thin (KV store etc) abstractions layered over it. Probably not dissimilar from the pattern underpinning the current CRDT gossip state.

Failed to mention in my other reply: a "seed" because I envisioned, perhaps too poetically, "seeding" some generic computational unit into the cluster only for it to organically spread to other nodes in the cluster... sort of like pollen? Maybe.