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+Fission
+=======
+
+Fission is a fast serverless framework for Kubernetes with a focus on
+developer productivity and high performance.
+
+It's heavily customizable (but with sensible defaults), extensible to
+any language, and interoperates well with other infrastructure.
+
+You can create and edit functions throughs a web UI, or you can use
+your favorite editor and upload them using a CLI.  You can trigger these
+functions via HTTP requests to paths, or by timers.
+
+Try it out at http://demo.example.com
+
+Running Fission
+===============
+
+On your own Kubernetes cluster
+------------------------------
+
+### Setup Kubernetes
+
+  https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
+
+### Get and Run Fission
+
+  $ wget http://example.com/fission.yaml
+  $ kubectl create -f fission.yaml
+
+
+Status
+======
+
+Fission is in early alpha.
+
+
+Performance
+===========
+
+The goal is to have less than 1 second latency for requests that don't
+have a running instance.  In practice, benchmarks show this latency at
+TODO msec for the NodeJS environment. 
+
+Here's a simple hello world benchmark on NodeJS: TODO.  It achieves
+TODO requests per second on a TODO-node Kubernetes cluster.
+
+
+Contributions
+=============
+
+TODO