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Figma built a centralized sandbox management platform called Nimbus. Through namespace configuration files and three APIs—GetOrCreate, Get, and Delete—the platform lets engineers create, reuse, and delete sandboxes without needing to understand cloud provider details. Nimbus uses a unified base image, sandbox-base, and a daemon, sandboxd, to manage processes, networking, and health checks. Its goal is to return a fully configured sandbox within 1 second and to load-balance across multiple cloud providers to cope with failures. There is currently no information on subsequent developments.
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How Figma Manages Sandboxes at Scale: An Analysis of the Nimbus Platform
Figma built a centralized sandbox management platform called Nimbus. Through namespace configuration files and three APIs—GetOrCreate, Get, and Delete—engineers can create, reuse, and delete sandboxes without needing to understand cloud provider details. Nimbus uses a unified base image, sandbox-base, and a daemon, sandboxd, to manage processes, networking, and health checks. Its goal is to return a fully configured sandbox within 1 second and to load-balance across multiple cloud providers to handle failures.