CARLOS

CARLOS is a software application architecture designed to reduce computing costs while increasing security, resilience, privacy, and sovereignty. It assigns each user their own process and encrypted database, with idle applications suspended to object storage and restarted on demand in milliseconds. The system is delivered as a single static binary that can be self-hosted, without a control plane, runtime, or external communication. Billing is based on actual usage measured in cpu-core-hours, GB-hours, and instance-hours, so idle applications incur no cost. CARLOS also claims reduced energy consumption by eliminating idle processes rather than relying on scaled-down containers or warm pools.

The system is delivered as a single static binary that can be self-hosted, without a control plane, runtime, or external communication. CARLOS excels at producing fast, accessible websites and apps that can be deployed easily, locally, on-prem, or on-cloud, as well as providing APIs, CLIs, MCPs, and backends for native apps. A typical CARLOS app is one file web server, database engine, background jobs and interface, compiled into a single binary.

CARLOS is a system for building better quality, more resilient, secure web apps that deploy easily. It is inspired by UNIX principles and deploys full stack web apps as single processes rather than sprawling containerised services, using fast compiled languages. The system is defined by an open specification, and the spec v0.1 is available for comment.

To get started, users can follow the directions on https://carlosframework.com/start. The website says to paste the start page into an agent, which can then take things from there. Users can also try it now by visiting the start page directly.

CARLOS is a system for building better web apps that can be deployed easily, locally, on-prem, or on-cloud. It provides APIs, CLIs, MCPs, and backends for native apps. The website says the system is cost-effective, available, replicated, lightweight, open, and secure.

The official website of CARLOS is carlosframework.com.

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