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Agents already empower many of us to build more ambitious things, and we’re only at the beginning stages of what they can do. We are excited to join OpenAI and bring intelligence to as many people as we can
This also means we are sunsetting Instant Cloud. Existing apps will continue to be support for 12 months, and backups available for 24 months. More details in our blog posts below
instantdb.com/essays/instant…
We also expanded the operating docs with email setup, access controls, CLI config, health checks, memory limits, and horizontal scaling.
The guides work for humans and coding agents. We tested them from fresh LLM sessions and got working deployments!
Check out the docs! instantdb.com/docs/self-host…
When you turn on read-only mode, all queries from your app continue to work, but writes will pause.
This lets you run your changes, then you click the button again, and bam, your app is back to accepting writes.
If you’re planning a migration in advance, your app can even react to read-only mode:
Just subscribe to it, like you do other queries:
We’ve updated our Docker image to run Instant across multiple machines.
Your machines will be aware of each other, so things like live cursors and shared presence will work out of the box no matter what machine each user is connected to.
And to make this even easier, we wrote up a guide to get this working via Docker Swarm!
Read more here: instantdb.com/docs/self-host…