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What does it mean?

I love that you've said this to me more than once.

You will be astonished to know it'a a whole lot of sqlite. Everything I want to pay attention to gets a token, the server goes and looks for stuff in the api, and seeds local sqlit…

All the time with a bunch of different sandboxes.

This is, in fact, the biggest problem to solve with any kind of compute platform. And when you suddenly launch things really, really fast, it gets harder.

For what it's worth, I do this from about 50 different IPs and have had no issues. I think their heuristics are more about confirming "a human is driving this" and rejecting "this …

Sandboxes with the right persistence and http routing make excellent dev servers. I have about a million dev servers I just use from whatever computer / phone I happen to be using.…

> Sprites for suspendable, iterative, sandboxed compute sessions (with disk)?.. Yes. They won't horizontally scale. They're pretty good for hosting my side projects! Not good for, …

It backs its metadata up to S3. You do need metadata to map inodes / slices / chunks to s3 objects, though. Tigris has a one-to-one FUSE that does what you want: https://github.com…

Shell environments are by far the most difficult part of building a stateful sandbox with checkpoints and restores. It's bananas. This will be fixed soon.

FUSE is full of gotchas. I wouldn't replace NFS with JuiceFS for arbitrary workloads. Getting the full FUSE set implemented is not easy -- you can't use sqlite on JuiceFS, for exam…

`cat file.txt | sprite exec -s bash -c "cat > ~/file.txt"` is my go to.

It's tiered, they have local nvme that gets written back to object storage. npm install hasn't bothered me, but I know of people with massive npm issues that would like faster firs…

Ok so, "running" sprite status has had some cache consistency issues. You're not being charged for idle sprites, but they may show as "running" even when you're not using them. The…

For what it's worth, CPU pricing is based on CPU util. A sprite sitting idle CPU costs almost nothing, even when "active".

Good point about quietly grabbing env vars, we can warn about that on first run. All it's getting are these: var envVars []string shellEnvVars := []string{ "BASH_VERSION", "ZSH_VER…

This is on the roadmap. The open question right now is if we can just do "fork from checkpoint" for customized template environments, or if we need all the docker infrastructure. I…

flyctl is complicated and, unfortunately, needs pretty aggressive auto updates. The sprite CLI should be much better in this respect.

Believe it or not, that's the only example that's not autogenerated from tests (yet). https://github.com/superfly/sprites-js/tree/main/examples https://github.com/superfly/sprites-…

I have a Sprite with an auth token to an isolated Sprite org, it works really well for this. SQLite works great for my apps. I haven't needed object storage yet, storing files on d…

It stays awake if you have an open connection (like sprite console) or an exec session if running and producing stdout. You can specify a max exec time for a process when you launc…

Intended typo so you can see restore happen ;)

If you `sprite console` to it, it'll forward any ports you open to localhost. You can tunnel almost everything through the CLI with the `sprite proxy` command.

sprite url update --auth public It requires your api token by default.