I’m pleased to say that we’ve recently shipped a whole bunch of improvements, with the net effect of vastly speeding up launch times for server code environments. I encourage you to pick up an app you haven’t touched in a while and open a Server Console - they now launch almost instantly, even if you’re on the Free Plan!
We also think we’ve now pinned down a failure mode that would occasionally cause spiralling launch times, particularly on the Free plan. This should keep everyone’s server code launching snappily
We’re continuing to improve Anvil’s performance, and not every improvement will get its own announcement, but I particularly wanted to celebrate this one!
Particular props go to @pete and @daviesian for this set of changes - I’m just cheering from the sidelines.
I feel like this improvement deserves an announcement.
I built some very heavy apps in the past, feature stacking as part of my learning journey. This would eventually slow the load times to a crawl, but this just made them behave “normal”.
Landing page speeds - this is where I found most value. It’s a critical hurdle when building a SaaS product. This just made Anvil a reasonable choice without having to wrap the app in an externally hosted landing page.
Agree with above posts, there is a huge difference in speed! Thanks @meredydd out of curiosity, does this performance boost also affect the App Server?
@tobias.carlbom - No, the changes only affect how we launch server environments in our scaled infrastucture on anvil.works. The App Server uses a different (much simpler) mechanism for executing server calls - so it is unaffected.
This is great, will this also improve API endpoint failures due to the lag in VM spin up?
Currently I have to have to keep some servers running in order to avoid API endpoint drops happening.
Will this assist with that?
