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24 alternatives to Sparky as a simple orchestrator for self hosted clusters

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

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

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    Sparky▲246

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    2025 · sparkjs.dev · its alternatives →

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    Rowy▲414

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    Upstash▲233

    Serverless data platform for Redis and Kafka

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    2016 · socketcluster.io · 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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    Sparkly▲102

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    2022 · 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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    Sparks AI▲128

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    2025 · getsparks.ai · its alternatives →

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    IOMETE▲85

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    2023 · iomete.com · its alternatives →

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    Kerno▲132

    Hey HN! Anibal, Sean, Vlad, Maxi and Karim here we're the co-founders of Kerno (https://www.kerno.io/). We're building a zero-hassle tool to help developers monitor and troubleshoot their services in a way that makes sense. No complex rollouts, no custom infra, no tons of instrumentation, no sidecars… none of that! Just a minimum effort, out-of-the box, highly contextualized and interactive experience so you and your team can focus on shipping! We basically scan your cluster resources, build usable abstractions on top of all the kubernetes craziness, identify monitor your…

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    Jun 2026 · kyushu.dev · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight engine for durable execution / deterministic workflows I built with Rust, wasmtime and the WASM Component Model. Its main use is running reliable, long-running workflows that can automatically resume after failures. Looking for feedback on the approach and potential use cases!

    2025 · obeli.sk · its alternatives →

  20. 20SA

    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 - DBOS CEO here with the co-founders of DBOS, Peter (KraftyOne) and Qian (qianli_cs). The company started as a research project of Stanford and MIT, and Peter and Qian were advised by Mike Stonebreaker, the creator of Postgres, and Matei Zaharia, the creator of Spark. They believe so strongly in reliable, serverless compute that they started a company (with Mike) to bring it to the world! Today we want to share our brand new Python library providing ultra-lightweight durable execution. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py Durable execution means your program…

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    Sparky▲69

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  23. 23CE

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    2015 · its alternatives →

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    self contained redis-server. Contribute to robinmonjo/sc-redis development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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