Depot
Depot is Most of a large container's startup goes to pulling and decompressing files it never reads to boot. SOCI makes the image seekable so the runtime loads only the bytes it needs, and Depot writes that index during the…. It is ranked #539 on the Dev Radar, in Hosting & infra, first seen 18 days ago and shared in 6 posts (6.8k views).
Why SOCI belongs in the build | Depot Depot Get started Log in Announcing Depot Metal Back to blog 8 min read engineering Chris Goller 26.08.04 Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Hacker News Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Hacker News Contents Stay in the loop Get notified when we ship new posts. Subscribe Get our RSS feed Stay in the loop Get notified when we ship new posts. Subscribe Get our RSS feed Chris Goller 26.08.04 Why SOCI belongs in the build I think container startup should be a build artifact. Fast builds are only half the story. At Depot we work to make container builds faster; however, a…
What people said about Depot on X
the github control plane goes down and your jobs never dispatch, so all your ci redundancy is moot. luke walked through how depot ci runs github actions workflows without it, keeping runs alive through outages. https://depot.dev/blog/github-actions-without-github
— @depotdev, 8 days ago · 14 likes · see the post
the whole reason we reimplemented lvm: its volume-group lock is held ~100ms per op. we launch microvms up to 200 times a second in parallel, and that single lock, not the data path, is what breaks the latency target. https://depot.dev/blog/why-i-reimplemented-lvm
— @depotdev, 15 days ago · 7 likes · see the post
a container can build in seconds and still crawl on deploy, because every node pulls and decompresses gigabytes it never reads to boot. soci fetches only the bytes needed to start. the index gets written at build time. https://depot.dev/blog/why-soci-belongs-in-the-build
— @depotdev, 18 days ago · 5 likes · see the post
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Depot in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #539 of 1353
- Shared in 6 posts by 2 accounts: @depotdev, @chronark
- 6.8k views on those posts
- First seen 18 days ago, last shared 8 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: not stated
- Market: Hosting & infra
FAQ
What is Depot?
Most of a large container's startup goes to pulling and decompressing files it never reads to boot. SOCI makes the image seekable so the runtime loads only the bytes it needs, and Depot writes that index during the… It was first shared on X 18 days ago and is ranked #539 on the Dev Radar.
Is Depot free?
Pricing is not stated on the page we read.
Who shared Depot?
2 accounts on X, including @depotdev, @chronark, in 6 posts totalling 6.8k views.
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