The Design & Implementation of Sprites
Read OriginalThis article details the technical implementation of Fly.io's 'Sprites'—disposable compute instances. It explains how they achieve fast provisioning by maintaining warm pools of pre-configured machines and describes their custom persistence layer, which uses a JuiceFS-like model with SQLite metadata backed by Litestream and S3-compatible object storage for data chunks.
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