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Key features include affinity-based VM scheduling, copy-on-write disk layering for efficient VM forking, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, BEAM-native fault tolerance, and a gRPC interface for polyglot integration. It requires only a Postgres database as an external dependency and can be embedded as a Mix dependency. The author built it after being dissatisfied with existing products — citing Daytona's unreliable VM features, Freestyle's reliability issues, and Runloop's lack of forking support and high cost. Hyper is early-stage and under active development, with interfaces subject to change. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Hologram: Building Local-First Apps in Pure Elixir \(ElixirConf US 2026\)](https://daily.dev/posts/hologram-building-local-first-apps-in-pure-elixir-elixirconf-us-2026--r8rmqkkz7) · Elixir Forum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hologram Works. 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