The login handler had no admission control before `spawn_blocking(verify_password)`. On Pi-class hardware Argon2id is ~50- 100 ms per attempt, so a few dozen concurrent anonymous POSTs to /auth/login park every blocking worker, wedging the entire admin API and any other path that uses `spawn_blocking`. Adds two cheap, in-process guards modeled on EmailRateLimiter: * `LoginRateLimiter` — two sliding-window token buckets, one per `(remote_ip, username)` (burst 5/60s) and one per `username` (burst 10/15min). Per-(ip, user) defeats a single attacker pounding one account; per-user defeats credential-stuffing distributed across many IPs. Username is case-folded so case variants share a bucket. Maps GC lazily when they cross a soft size cap. * Per-process `tokio::sync::Semaphore` — caps concurrent Argon2 verifies during login. Default 2 permits (Pi-class), overridable via `PICLOUD_LOGIN_ARGON2_PARALLELISM`. Acquired AFTER the bucket check so attackers can't queue. Limit check fires before the DB credentials lookup, so even an unknown username doesn't cost a query. Denied attempts return 429 + Retry-After. Real client IP comes from the first X-Forwarded-For entry (Caddy is the trusted single hop); falls back to "unknown" so the per-user bucket still gates. 4 unit tests cover bucket burst exhaustion, per-user crossing IPs, case folding, and per-user independence. Audit ref: security_audit/08_dos_resource.md (H-2 / H-B1). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PiCloud
A lightweight, self-hosted, event-driven serverless compute platform. Upload a Rhai script, get an HTTP endpoint. Designed to run on a single modest server with no idle CPU cost, and to scale out to a small cluster when you need it.
Status: Phase 1 — MVP scaffolding in progress.
The authoritative design lives in
serverless_cloud_blueprint.md.
Why
Existing serverless platforms are either cloud-locked, heavyweight, or both. PiCloud aims for the opposite end of the spectrum: one binary, one database, one reverse proxy — running on hardware you already own.
Architecture (one paragraph)
PiCloud splits into three logical services — manager (control plane: scripts, schedules, dashboard), orchestrator (per-node event ingress and dispatch), and executor (per-node Rhai sandbox) — each backed by a *-core Rust library. In MVP they run in a single process; in cluster mode they run as three binaries with one manager and one orchestrator + executor per node. Caddy fronts everything; PostgreSQL is the single source of truth.
See CLAUDE.md for working notes and serverless_cloud_blueprint.md for the full design.
Quick Start
Coming as scaffolding lands. For now:
# Rust toolchain (pinned via rust-toolchain.toml)
cargo check --workspace
# Run the all-in-one MVP binary (once main.rs is wired up)
cargo run -p picloud
Repository Layout
crates/
shared/ cross-cutting types
executor-core/ Rhai engine + sandbox
orchestrator-core/ event ingress, dispatch
manager-core/ control plane
picloud/ MVP all-in-one binary
picloud-{manager,orchestrator,executor}/ cluster-mode binaries (skeleton)
dashboard/ SvelteKit
caddy/ Caddyfile
docker/ Dockerfiles
docs/
git-workflow.md Trunk-based workflow
Contributing
See docs/git-workflow.md for the branching and commit conventions. TL;DR: trunk-based, short-lived branches, Conventional Commits, no force-pushing main.
License
TBD.