Runa

The development of Runa is mostly on hold while I'm waiting for winter and cold temperatures to arrive to justify turning on the cluster again and resume working on my chess engine. Running the cluster produce a lot of heat that I use in the house to warm up a bedroom next door.

In the meantime I'm mostly focusing on building MVPs related to green cloud computing.

After a few years without much web related projects I decided to build another Rails app to help me run scripts on a little cluster I made to test my chess engine.

Every change on the engine need to be tested on tens of thousand of chess games to get a statistically significant result. But managing scripts on multiple servers through SSH and Screen got old pretty quickly.

This was the perfect excuse to test Rails 7.0 and Turbo to make a dynamic app without JavaScript, just like the cluster was itself a justification to keep an unused part of the house above freezing during the winter. I also spent years working on background jobs and I wanted to explore some new things on that space.

Right now I'm on the fence about whether I should build a little SaaS out of it by launching a new virtual machine in the cloud every time someone run a task and make the service highly scalable or focus on a minimalist on-premise open source app to manage tasks on local servers.