Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes
OpenComputer describes the architectural challenges of scaling a sandbox-based infrastructure beyond the compute quotas imposed by single cloud providers. The company explains how they transitioned to a multi-cloud, cell-based architecture to bypass regional hardware limitations.
Why it matters
This highlights the practical infrastructure bottlenecks faced by high-growth startups relying on public cloud providers and the necessity of multi-cloud strategies for massive scale.
We started OpenComputer with a single virtual machine in one Azure region. The company grew quickly, but Azure couldn't raise our compute quota in that region any further, and we found ourselves growing against a fixed pool of CPUs.
The article is a technical case study focused on engineering challenges without political or social commentary.
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