Two review findings.
1. After R3 every production rebuild path uses `compile_effective_routes`;
`compile_routes` (the old app-only compile) was called only by its own
two unit tests, and its "runs in build_app" doc was stale — so the
lenient-skip + disabled-drop regression guards no longer covered the
live path. Remove `compile_routes` + its re-export, fold the lenient-skip
rationale onto `compile_one`, and port both guards to
`compile_effective_routes` (app-only rows are just depth-0 effective
rows). Add a third guard pinning nearest-owner shadowing at the pure-
compile layer. Fix the stale `compile_routes` mention in apply_service.
2. Document the disabled + inherited semantic: the `enabled` filter runs
before the shadow check, so a disabled own-route does not claim its
binding and an enabled ancestor template at the same path falls through
("disabled = absent", §4.3). Recorded on `compile_effective_routes` and
in design §4.5 — the corollary (can't 404 an inherited route by
disabling a same-path own route) points at the deferred per-app opt-out.
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.