#cloud

• Mon, Nov 10, 2025. HTML + JS apps will last longer than server-side apps and it makes sense to write more of those. For essential back-end services, keep them generic. Specific services layers I see are: #cloud #future #prompt-engineering #server #todo
  • Auth (e.g. Google Auth, Auth0, Supabase, ...)
  • Storage (e.g. Supabase, Firebase)
  • LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, Claude, OpenRouter)
  • Communications (e.g. EmailJS)
  • ... Extend with LLMs

• Sat, Oct 18, 2025. Cloudflare's Sandbox feature in their Workers looks impressive. It supports streaming, web access to the container, and long-running processes. So we can spawn off a task and have it run a server (at least for a while) or a scraper. #cloud #future #server

• Sun, Sep 28, 2025. ⭐ Code Mode is a smart way to use MCPs and a very likely future direction. Using LLMs to write code to call MCPs rather than directly. #ai-coding #cloud #code-agents #future #llm-ops #markdown

• Sun, Sep 28, 2025. Cloudflare supports an AI Index which will eliminate the need for a lot of custom RAG engineering. #ai-coding #cloud #code-agents

• Fri, Aug 29, 2025. CloudFlare AutoRAG lets you index any website and expose it as an API + Chatbot with a model of your choice. This is available on the free tier, too. The API follows NLWeb, Microsoft's open standard for LLMs and MCPs to interact with websites in natural language. #cloud #code-agents #web-dev

• Fri, Aug 29, 2025. Cloudflare has an image transformation API that also acts as a CDN. Apart from basic transformations, it can auto detect and crop faces, remove backgrounds, and more. #cloud #document-conversion #image-generation

• Sun, Aug 3, 2025. CloudFlare has an Iceberg data catalog in R2 Data Catalog. Iceberg is like Parquet but supports metadata, time-travel, and schema edits. But I'm yet to find a single publicly accessible Iceberg catalog. Its open-data adoption is not as high as Parquet's. Apache Iceberg vs Parquet #cloud

• Wed, Jul 23, 2025. catbox.moe is a file hosting service that you can upload a file to without any API key. It's an alternative to 0x0.st. Both can be used for images. Catbox retains files indefinitely and openly publishes costs - might last longer. 0x0 deletes files between 1-12 months based on size. #cloud #hosting

• Wed, Jul 16, 2025. Claude Code enterprise use is possible. It works with Google Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock securely and supports usage monitoring #cloud #code-agents #github #ai-coding

• Fri, Jun 27, 2025. CloudFlare and Vercel now support sandboxes where you can execute code. The price is not so low that we can execute for free in bulk but works well infrequent or batched code execution. Simon Willison #cloud #code-agents

• Sat, May 31, 2025. I was exploring free alternatives to the $4/mo Hetzner instance I use. Google offers a free e2 micro instance. But it's much smaller than the Hetzner CAX11/CX-22 server I run. 25% of CPU, 25% of RAM (which is the main problem -- 1 GB is often not enough), slower HDD, 5% of outbound traffic. Hetzner remains one of the best value offerings. #cloud #hosting

• Tue, May 13, 2025. ⭐ Today, if I had to store a bunch of data files (e.g. parquet) under 1GB, I would use GitHub Releases. Here are options: #cloud #database #github #markdown
  • GitHub Releases. 2 GiB per file, unlimited total & bandwidth. 🟢 Immortal URL, versioning, easy CI publish. 🔴 Each file must stay < 2 GiB; no built-in SQL.
  • Zenodo (CERN). 50 GB per record; one-off bumps to 200 GB. 🟢 DOI assignment, archival mandate. 🔴 Occasional throttled bandwidth; no API for partial file reads.
  • Hugging Face Hub. 300 GB per repo; 50 GB per file. 🟢 Git-based, dataset tooling, lively ML community. 🔴 Large files need git-LFS; pushes via LFS can be slow.
  • Cloudflare R2. 10 GB storage & 1 M ops / month. 🟢 S3 API, zero-egress to Cloudflare Workers, fast. 🔴 10 GB cap below your 50 GB target.
  • Kaggle Datasets. 20 GB per dataset, public only. 🟢 Built-in notebooks & GPU. 🔴 No programmatic SQL API; quotas sometimes change.
  • data.world (free). 1 GB total, 100 MB per dataset. 🟢 Nice social features. 🔴 Too small for your size.

• Tue, May 13, 2025. If I had to query a bunch of data files in an external Parquet or SQLite file, here are SQL engines-as-a-service: #cloud #database
  • MotherDuck. 10 GB storage + 10 CU-hrs/mo compute. Native DuckDB; no credit card; GA June 2024; monthly feature drops.
  • Datasette Cloud. Two-month trial (or 1-yr for non-profits). SQLite backend. Great UX; but not free forever for general use.
  • AWS Athena. Pay-per-TB scanned; no free tier; S3 fees after 12 mo. Costs creep quickly; free-tier S3 ends after a year.

• Tue, May 13, 2025. There's a lot of action on encrypted LLM operations. #cloud #llm-ops
  • Responses API allows reasoning tokens to be encrypted if organizations don't want their reasoning data to persist. Ref
  • Tinfoil (YC X25) offers an OpenAI-compatible inference API where data is encrypted from the client to the NVIDIA Hopper/Blackwell GPUs in confidential computing mode. Prompts, model weights, outputs are encrypted in transit and memory, with verifiable privacy on code running in GPU.
  • Modelyo (Israel) offers VMs/K8 clusters with encrypted GPUs across multiple cloud providers with continuous attestation, managed on Modelyo's portal.

• Mon, May 12, 2025. CloudFlare Zero Trust seems the easiest way to enable auth on static websites, especially if your DNS is already on Cloudflare. No cost #cloud #hosting

• Tue, May 6, 2025. GitHub does not let you control the cache duration, but there are many creative workarounds. ChatGPT #cloud #github #hosting
  • HTML meta tags: <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate">
  • Use a service worker (blog)
  • Proxy through a CDN. Cloudflare, Netlify
  • Move to another static host: S3 + CloudFront, Heroku, Vercel, Surge, Firebase Hosting

• Sun, Apr 27, 2025. It's interesting how many places offer a free compute via shells (apart from Google Colab): #cloud #github #hosting
  • Google Cloud Shell: Free for 50 hours/week, refreshed every Monday. Sessions last up to 12 hours and terminate after ~1 hour inactivity. Ref
  • Azure Cloud Shell: Always free to use with 5 GB free storage for first 12 months (standard rates after). No documented session limits but typically times out after prolonged inactivity. Ref
  • AWS Cloud9: Free IDE, underlying compute free under AWS Free Tier (750 hours/month EC2 t2.micro or t3.micro for first 12 months). Regular EC2 rates apply afterward. Ref
  • Gitpod: Free tier offers 500 credits/month (~50 hrs). Workspaces run up to 8 hours/session and stop after 30 minutes inactivity. Ref
  • GitHub Codespaces: 120 core-hours/month (~60 hrs with 2-core machine) and 15 GB storage free. Sessions timeout after 30 minutes inactivity. Ref
    • Create: gh codespace create --idle-timeout 10m --machine basicLinux32gb -R $USER/$REPO returns the $CONTAINER_ID
    • SSH: gh codespace ssh -c $CONTAINER_ID
    • Delete: gh codespace delete -c $CONTAINER_ID
  • Replit: Free Starter plan provides 20 hours/month, 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 2 GiB storage. Repls sleep after 30 minutes inactivity. Ref
  • IBM Cloud Shell: Free for all users; 50 h/week per region; any open session counts toward quota; sessions can run any length up to weekly cap; 500 MB temporary workspace. Ref
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Shell: Free within tenancy limits; up to 400 h/month on Pay-As-You-Go, 240 h/month on Universal Credits; 5 GB encrypted persistent home. Ref
  • PythonAnywhere: Free (beginner plan), includes one web app (restricted outbound), low CPU/bandwidth, no Jupyter; 2 concurrent Bash/Python consoles, 500 MB disk; limited daily CPU. Ref
  • Glitch: Starter (free) plan -- full-stack apps sleep after 5 min inactivity and wake on request; unlimited public/private projects; container state preserved. Ref
  • CodeSandbox: Free tier provides 400 credits/month (~40 h of 2 vCPU+4 GB Devbox runtime), unlimited front-end Sandboxes (no credits), up to 20 Sandboxes/workspace. Ref

• Sun, Apr 20, 2025. OpenAI doesn't charge for file storage but does charge 10 cents / GB-day for vector storage beyond 1 GB. The first 1GB is free #cloud

• Sat, Mar 15, 2025. What makes client-side computing on the browser powerful is #cloud #html #server #web-dev
  • There's nothing to install
  • Private by default: data stays with client
  • Speed: no latency

• Thu, Jan 23, 2025. According to Portkey's LLM usage analysis #cloud #gpu
  • Anyscale and Fireworks AI have the lowest error rates (5xx, 429) and rate limits across providers
  • Groq and Anthropic are among the highest, OpenAI is among the lowest, Google is in-between
  • OpenAI has lower error rates and lower latency than Azure
  • They have a ~35% cache hit rate

• Sun, Jan 12, 2025. GitHub CodeSpaces seems to be coming up more often in my radar, but I'm yet to figure out a use for it. #cloud #future #github #markdown

• Tue, Jan 7, 2025. Cloudflare tunnel is like ngrok but more permanent. It's a bit more complex, too. But given CloudFlare's liberal free tier, it's a good, viable option for long-term local hosting. #cloud #hosting #networking

• Wed, Jan 1, 2025. LLM Code Execution Sandboxes that let you run code in a sandbox via an API: #cloud #code-agents #github #llm-ops
  • AgentRun: open source, via Docker
  • e2b.dev: A day costs about $1 (on demand) and you get about $100 one time credits. Self-hosting is complex. Discussion
  • nsjail: by Google. Write your own API

• Fri, Dec 27, 2024. What would be the cost of storing about 500GB of LLM cache logs and 5 million write requests per month? #cloud
  • CloudFlare KV: $250 + $25 / month Ref
  • MongoDB: $125 + $5 / month Ref
  • S3: $0.0115 + $25 / month Ref + ?
  • CloudFlare R2: $0.0075 + $22.5 / month Ref

• Sat, Dec 21, 2024. What to use for hosting: ChatGPT #chatgpt #cloud #github #hosting #html #server #web-dev
  • GitHub Pages: Static websites, medium files
  • Cloudflare Pages: Static websites, global delivery
  • Vercel: Frontend frameworks (e.g. Next.js) with high DX and ISR, small files
  • Netlify: JAMstack projects, minimal back-end, moderate files
  • Glitch: Small static projects
  • Render: Full-stack apps requiring databases and server-side compute
  • Firebase Hosting: Small sites, limited large files
  • Archive.org: Public archival, large files
  • Google Drive: File sharing, large files
  • Dropbox: File sharing, moderate files
  • Cloudflare R2: Static assets, large file delivery

• Wed, Dec 11, 2024. Hyperbrowser is a cloud based puppeteer service. #cloud #future

• Tue, Nov 26, 2024. CloudFlare workers can bundle any kind of files, including text, data, and WASM. Docs #cloud #document-conversion #markdown

• Mon, Nov 11, 2024. Cloudflare R2 has the same API as S3 but is cheaper #cloud

• Sat, Nov 9, 2024. LLM Vision Use Cases in manufacturing and earth sciences (via Shivku) #cloud #image-generation #llm-ops
  • Automated geoscience image descriptions Ref
  • Interpret Wind Turbine photos and charts, construction monitoring, equipment maintenance & charts Ref
  • Forecast weather based on cloud photos! Ref
  • Analyze thermal image of solar panels, electroluminescence images for warranty claims, ROI estimates from Google Sunroof rooftop images Ref
  • Corrosion detection in electricity towers, turbines, storage tanks, penstock. Interpret non-destructive test images Ref

• Sun, Oct 27, 2024. Cohere Multimodal Embed v3 is available on Azure. #cloud #embeddings

• Fri, Oct 4, 2024. There's a movement towards embeddable databases on the cloud. #cloud #database
  • MotherDuck is hosted DuckDB.
  • Turso is hosted SQLite (with local sync, multi-tenant)
  • StarBase DB is SQLite with an API on top of Cloudflare Durable Objects.

• Fri, Sep 20, 2024. Jupyter Lite lets you run Jupyter notebooks in the browser #cloud #future

• Mon, Jul 22, 2024. Awesome PaaS lists self-hosted deployment platforms. Piku - similar to Dokku -- is promising. #cloud #github #hosting

• Sat, Jun 22, 2024. Luma Labs Dream Machine generated videos. It's free and is of reasonable quality. Update: 6 Jun 2025. Costs $10/month #cloud #future

• Sat, Apr 27, 2024. Cheap cloud GPU services thread on Twitter lists: #cloud #gpu
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• Wed, Feb 14, 2024. Fly.io offers GPU hosting and auto stop when they have nothing to do. #cloud #gpu #hosting

• Sun, Jan 28, 2024. Intel developer cloud has a liberal GPU in the free tier. #cloud #gpu

• Sun, Jan 7, 2024. mixtral-offloading cleverly loads only the model layer required at any point, letting you run Mixtral 8x7b on Colab Free and on 16GB GPUs. This notebook runs on Colab Free too. #cloud #gpu #markdown

• Sun, Dec 3, 2023. SkyPilot lets you run LLMs on any cloud provider. #cloud #future #llm-ops