A driver script died of one slow answer: httpx.ReadTimeout out of RunHandle.refresh() with a 30 s read timeout and no retry anywhere, which cost a sweep 78 of its 84 runs. - Split the timeout (5 s connect, 120 s read): a wrong URL fails at once, and a busy engine gets longer than the slowest thing it does on purpose (a 60 s compile, a 15 s rebuild wait). - Retry idempotent calls three times on a transport error or 502/503/504. 503 is the engine's own "ask again" — it is what RebuildBusy answers. - Submit carries a key the engine stores with the run, so a retry after a timeout returns that run instead of starting a second. A sweep keys every entry, so a half-created one recreates only what is missing. - wait() and --follow tolerate five failed polls in a row; a 404 still stops at once, because that is an answer rather than a gap. - CLI says "engine not answering" and names the run still on the engine, instead of printing a traceback. - runs: clamp the params column to 80 characters; events() takes the flow/since/until the endpoint already had; RunHandle.failures answers "what killed this run" from the run's own node rows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
fluksio-worker
Runs Fluksio nodes on a machine the engine cannot reach — a GPU box, a cluster node, anything behind a NAT. It dials out to the engine over one authenticated websocket, so nothing has to be exposed here.
pip install fluksio-worker
fluksio-worker \
--url wss://api.example.com/api/v1/workers/attach \
--token "$FLUKSIO_WORKER_TOKEN" \
--labels gpu,cuda12 \
--python /opt/torch-venv/bin/python
--python is the interpreter node code runs on, which is how this machine keeps
its own wheels without the engine ever installing them. Mint a token from the
engine with POST /api/v1/workers/tokens.
Linux and macOS.
License
Copyright (C) 2026 Melvin Strobl — GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. Running a modified version over a network obliges you to offer its users the corresponding source (AGPL §13).