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Product

Introducing the Vercel-style deploy pipeline

Push to a branch and watch shadw fan your build out across the peer-to-peer mesh — atomic builds, immutable deployments, and preview URLs for every commit. No build servers to babysit, no cold infrastructure to provision. Here's how we made instant, global deploys feel native to a self-hosted cloud.

Dylan Wong • Jun 16, 2026 • 8 min read

Latest posts

Engineering

How GuardianDB keeps data durable across a P2P mesh

Replication, quorum writes, and self-healing shards — a tour of the storage engine that keeps your data safe even when peers come and go.

Jun 11, 2026 • 11 min read

Security

Anonymous preview access with zero-knowledge proofs

Share a private deploy without handing out credentials. We use zero-knowledge proofs to gate previews while revealing nothing about who's allowed in.

Jun 4, 2026 • 9 min read

Engineering

Fluid compute: serverless that scales to zero

Functions that spin up in milliseconds on the nearest peer and disappear when idle. A look at the scheduler behind shadw's fluid compute layer.

May 28, 2026 • 7 min read

Product

Bring your own domain: end-to-end DNS

Point your domain at the mesh and shadw handles certificates, propagation, and routing automatically — with verifiable, end-to-end control of your records.

May 20, 2026 • 6 min read

Engineering

Instant rollback is just an alias swap

Every deploy is immutable, so rolling back never rebuilds anything. We just re-point an alias — and your last-known-good version is live again in seconds.

May 13, 2026 • 5 min read

Engineering

Designing a control plane with no central server

Coordination without a coordinator. How shadw reaches consensus on deployments, leases, and routing using only the peers in your network.

May 5, 2026 • 10 min read

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