Alex Ellis

I wanted to see how the idea of a "time-sharing" computer from the 1970s could be applied to modern computing tasks. The API for GitHub and GitHub Actions was ideal for being able to submit bash scripts and have them execute in a VM, including secrets management and getting binary results back to the local machine like a YouTube video from youtubedl or a custom Linux Kernel built on speedy hardware. Because GitHub's all about AI now, I've also included an example of how to run llama2 to answer a bunch of questions using a pre-trained model from Hugging Face.

The time-sharing computers of the 1970s meant operators could submit a job and get the results at some point in the future. Under the guise of "serverless", everything old is new again. Learn how and why I turned GitHub's APIs into a time-sharing supercomputer from the 1970s to execute modern batch jobs.

Time-sharing supercomputer built on GitHub Actions. In the 1970s - or so I hear, time-sharing was all the rage, with users being able to submit tasks or batch jobs to large computers, and to collect the results when the jobs where done. Goal Run a shell script in an isolated, immutable environment, collect the logs or results.

You can now request custom amounts of RAM and vCPU for jobs, run eBPF within jobs, and use KVM acceleration. In this December update, we've got three new updates to the platform that we think you'll benefit from. From requesting custom vCPU and RAM per job, to eBPF features, to spreading your plan across multiple machines dynamically, it's all new and makes actuated better value.

This guide will show you how to migrate functions from AWS Lambda to OpenFaaS and Kubernetes with sources and examples on GitHub.

Ampere Computing and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation are sponsoring a pilot of actuated's managed Arm CI for CNCF projects. In this post, we'll cover why Ampere Computing and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are sponsoring a pilot of actuated for open source projects, how you can get involved.

Ampere Computing and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation are sponsoring a pilot of actuated's managed Arm CI for CNCF projects. In this post, we'll cover why Ampere Computing and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are sponsoring a pilot of actuated for open source projects, how you can get involved. We'll also give you a quick one year recap on actuated, if you haven't checked in with us for a while.

So I wrote a lab that takes a container image and converts it to a microVM. You'll get your hands dirty, you'll run a microVM, you'll be able to use curl and ssh, even expose a HTTP server to the Internet via inlets, if (like me), you find that kind of thing fun.