Sprites -- What are they good for? by David Bluestein II

This month, David Bluestein II will be presenting "Sprites -- What are they good for?"

Join us for an exciting dive into Fly.io's brand-new Sprites — lightweight, persistent, disposable cloud VMs that boot in seconds with fast checkpoint/restore (~1s). Introduced in early January 2026 by Chris McCord and the Fly team, these "BIC disposable cloud computers" are built for safe, stateful code execution, especially agentic AI workflows.

We'll cover:

• What Sprites are (and why they're better than ephemeral sandboxes)
• Elixir/Phoenix integrations via the sprites-ex SDK
• Real-world patterns
• When to use them vs Nx/Fly GPUs or clustered Machines

There will be some live (robot-assisted) coding!