phoenixframework/flame

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FLAME is an Elixir library that lets you auto-scale parts of an existing application by wrapping code blocks in a FLAME.call, which executes them on short-lived copies of the app. It handles elastic pool scaling up and down with pluggable backends such as Fly.io.

Use cases

• run CPU-heavy tasks like ffmpeg thumbnail generation on temporary servers
• auto scale parts of my existing app with a single function call
• offload expensive background work without a separate worker service
• boot ephemeral copies of my app to run a block of code
• scale to zero for bursty workloads in Elixir
• run async jobs on short-lived infrastructure

When to choose

• you have an existing Elixir/Phoenix app and want elastic scaling without extracting services
• you need to run the full application context (DB connections, deps) for a task
• you want scale-to-zero pools with automatic idle shutdown

When to avoid

• your stack is not Elixir/Erlang
• you need a general-purpose job queue rather than ephemeral in-place execution
• you deploy on platforms without a supported FLAME backend

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cloud serverless concurrency deployment workflow-automation backend cloud-computing web-development microservices elixir cloud elastic-scaling serverless-elixir fly-io phoenix temporary-runners autoscaling web-server

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