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24 alternatives to Minimalist self-hosted CI server written on Raku

Sparky is a flexible and minimalist continuous integration server and distribute tasks runner written in Raku. https://github.com/melezhik/sparky

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Minimalist self-hosted CI server written on Raku launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Sparky is a flexible and minimalist continuous integration server and distribute tasks runner written in Raku. - sparky/posts/SparkyAsSimpleOrchestratorforSelfHostedClusters.md at master · melezhik/sparky

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KORE.io▲88

    A fast SPDY capable web server for web development in C

    2015 · kore.io · its alternatives →

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    Create and manage full-stack micro-apps with AI prompts

    2024 · githubnext.com · its alternatives →

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    "interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sparkian is an AI workspace that unifies chat, image generation, and research across 70+ leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more. You can compare responses side by side, switch models without losing context, and bring web citations and a knowledge base into answer

    2023 · sparkian.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We’re a small team of OS, virtualization, and ML engineers, and after three years of development, we’re thrilled to launch the beta of our CUDA abstraction layer! We decouple the Kernel Shader execution from applications that use CUDA into a Wooly Abstraction layer. In this abstraction layer, we compile these to a new binary, and Shaders are compiled into a Wooly Instruction Set. At runtime, Kernel Shader launch events initiate a transfer of Shader over the network from a CPU host to a GPU host, where they are recompiled. Their execution is managed by Wooly Server software to achieve…

    2025 · woolyai.com · its alternatives →

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    A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation. - pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sparks AI▲128

    Hi Hacker News, we just launched our beta for Sparks AI. Sparks AI is a platform for building, sharing, and monetizing your AI assistants using app integrations and multiple LLMs. We're still working out the kinks and would love to get your feedback. We also have a discord: https://discord.gg/bdWknpfVKX We’re trying to get our initial users to serve personally and hope that you give us a shot. Thank you

    2025 · getsparks.ai · its alternatives →

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    I've built this to make it easy to host your own infra for lightweight VMs at large scale. Intended for exec of AI-generated code, for CICD runners, or for off-chain AI DApps. Mainly to avoid Docker-in-Docker dangers and mess. Super easy to use with CLI / Python SDK, friendly to AI engs who usually don't like to mess with VM orchestration and networking too much. Defense-in-depth philosophy. Would love to get feedback (and contributors: clear & exciting roadmap!), thx

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Dokku▲90

    Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Spark▲85

    Build internet-connected hardware.

    2014 · particle.io · its alternatives →

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    The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers. - piku/piku

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey folks, I figured this might be useful for a few people who want to play with hadoop and spark locally. Feedback hugely appreciated. I built this from the pain of wanting to setup a cluster for demos. I have gpu bits in there due to the use case but figured maybe some could draw inspiration from this. Happy to answer questions if there's any interest. Link here: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/docker

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we’re Jessie and Eric. We’ve been baking away at Cakework (https://www.cakework.com/), which is a way to build async backends without needing to manage cloud infrastructure. Cakework is for operations that take time or more compute, like file processing, report generation, or machine learning. Devs write backends as Python functions and deploy them with our CLI. They use our client SDKs to make requests, get status, and get processing results. Each request runs with its own CPU and memory parameters in its own microVM, with no timeouts. Devs can query for failures and…

    2023 · cakework.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN — I am the CTO of Rierino (https://rierino.com/platform/core), a low-code backend platform built for developers, not business users. We recently launched our Developer Lite version on AWS Marketplace, and we're offering a free private trial to HN users. We built our low-code platform while working with scale-ups, out of frustration with how painful and expensive backend logic can be to implement and maintain in high-speed, distributed environments. It either meant hand-coding everything or relying on rigid tools that abstract away too much. We tested a range of LCNC…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    a minimalist toolkit for building scalable, fault tolerant and eventually-consistent microservices - dot-microservices/dot-rest

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We are launching Denormalized (www.denormalized.io), a serverless real-time data platform built on Kafka and Pinot. We felt a bit burnt out by the sheer developer toil we faced when building application around the real-time data stack and set out to create a platform to allow small teams to be very productive with realtime data without having to glue together an elaborate system to serve real-time as well as time series queries. Here is our motivating post. Would appreciate any and all feedback.

    2023 · teamdenormalized.substack.com · its alternatives →

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    I spent a long time working in the payments industry, specifically on a rather niche reporting/aggregation platform with spiky workloads that were not easily parallelized. To pump as much data through our pipeline as possible, we had to rely on complex locking schemes across half a dozen or so not-so-micro services - keeping a clear mental picture of how the services interacted for a given data source was a major headache. This problem always intrigued me, even after I no longer worked at the company, and lead to the development of Wool. If you've worked with frameworks like Ray or…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    www.github.com/nubskr/walrus

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    Hi, over the past few months I've been working on this project: Numax is a small Rust runtime that does three things: it runs WebAssembly modules in a sandbox, has a built-in local key-value store, and syncs everything across nodes with CRDTs and gossip. Basically, you write a wasm module, run it on two machines, and they converge (I hope !). It's a decentralized system... I hope someone finds it interesting! There's a whitepaper I've put a lot into, and I think the code isn't bad either! I believe there's still room in this world for software that's fun and well made, and while building…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    280 kB minimalistic HTTP server with async I/O and hot-code reloading - diznq/80s

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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