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Observed arrival · 2026-08-29

Roost brings serverless compute back to your own machines

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A self-hosted Python runner that ships decorated functions to hardware you control, builds their environments, streams logs, and records each run locally.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-29 issue.

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Roost stages a function’s source, sibling modules, and arguments to a selected machine over SSH rather than shipping a serialized code object. It builds a content-addressed virtual environment with uv, reuses unchanged environments, streams process output, and stores metadata such as status, duration, host, and result in ~/.roost. The example targets fleet:jl1, completes in 6.32 seconds, and records checkpoints to a volume.

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