I don't know about calling it a piece of crap. Seems a little harsh. :-)

I don't normally see 'piece of crap' written as PoC. I'm used to seeing PoS used often. I usually see PoC as 'proof of concept'.

It could mean proof of concept.

I think that smile could mean that he's being facetious.

Incidentally, I read it the other way as well.

Haha, imagine what tech news would be like if every time you saw PoC you thought it meant piece of crap. Quite hilarious actually.

Definitely meant it's ROFL web scale, asynchronous, non-blocking, event driven, message passing, nosql, sharded, clusters of highly available, reliable, high performance, real time, bad ass, rockstar, get the girls, get the funding, get the IPO, impress your mom, impress your cat ... applications.