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The Design & Implementation of Sprites · The Fly Blog

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So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.

Author Name Thomas Ptacek @tqbf @tqbf Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers and run them on our own hardware all around the world. But last week, we launched Sprites , and they don’t work that way at all. Sprites are something new: Docker without Docker without Docker. This post is about how they work. Replacement-level homeowners buy boxes of pens and stick them in "the pen drawer". What the elites know: you have to think adversarially about pens. "The purpose of a system is what it does"; a ho

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