Folks, We are excited to bring to you a new feature on JuliaBox. This is alpha, and mainly being announced for you to try out and see if there is further interest.
In your settings page, you should see a new section on APIs. Basically, you can paste a small snippet of code in there and define an API endpoint. Every time anyone hits that API then, your code will run in its own docker container. The containers are created on demand (so the first use is slow), and then things will be smooth afterwards until there is a period of inactivity when the container shuts down. I personally love it, and Tanmay has made this possible. The settings page also has a link to some examples you can try out. We need to do a lot more polishing to make this a regular feature, but figured we’ll put it out here for comments and to gauge interest. -viral
