Documentation

Learn how Tidedge Serverless works, explore core concepts, and find practical examples for deploying your applications. Whether you're getting started or diving deep into architecture, you'll find what you need here.

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Concepts

Understand the core ideas: stacks, variants, layers, content-addressable storage, volumes, and warm pools.

Learn the fundamentals →

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Architecture

See how all the components connect: system roles, request flow, VM lifecycle, networking, and data storage.

Explore the system →

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Examples

Follow step-by-step guides for common scenarios: quick start, multi-service apps, PR previews, databases, and GPU workloads.

See it in action →

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CLI Reference

Complete reference for the sf command-line tool. All commands, flags, and examples with searchable interface.

Browse commands →

Quick Start

Deploy your first serverless application in under a minute:

# Create a dev stack with services
sf stack create dev --entrypoint frontend
sf stack add dev frontend --image nodetest --tag 0.0.5

# Access your app (VM boots on first request)
curl http://frontend.dev.localhost.openiap.io

# Create a PR preview variant (only overridden services cost $)
sf variant create dev pr-42 --override frontend.tag=pr-42

# Access the PR preview
curl http://frontend.dev--pr-42.localhost.openiap.io