Audit #6 and #8 for the last of the three stores, plus a bypass found on the way. **#6.** create/update/delete wrote the metadata row, then emitted best-effort, so an outbox failure left a committed file whose trigger never fired. `atomic_write::FilesWriter` commits the metadata row and the fan-out together. Files are the one store where the ordering is subtle, because the BYTES live on disk and cannot join a transaction: * create/update — blob first, then commit metadata + fan-out. A rollback unlinks the blob. (A crash at that exact point still orphans it; that hazard predates this change — the repo already wrote the blob and then inserted the row in a separate, failable statement — and the orphan is inert, referenced by nothing.) * delete — commit the metadata removal + fan-out FIRST, then unlink. The reverse order would destroy the bytes of a row that a rollback keeps, leaving a file that can never be read. **#8.** `GroupFilesService::create` read `total_bytes` on one connection and wrote on another, so concurrent uploads each saw the same pre-write total and together overshot the ceiling. This is the worst instance of the race in the codebase: the ceiling is DISK (10 GiB by default) and one file may be 100 MB, so a racing fleet overshoots by gigabytes. `PostgresGroupFilesWriter` takes the per-group advisory lock (on its own `files` key) across the check and the write. **The bypass.** `GroupFilesService::update` checked NO quota at all — so a 1-byte file could be updated to a 100 MB one without the ceiling ever being consulted, repeatedly, for unbounded disk. It now checks the projected total (the replaced file's bytes subtracted in SQL, so a same-size-or-smaller update near the cap still goes through). Also drive-by: `queue_e2e` asserted the ack the instant the marker appeared, but the marker is written DURING the handler and the ack happens after it returns — a zero-tolerance race. It polls now. (This does not fix the suite's flakiness, which reproduces on the pre-pass commit too.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (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.