[consequential]

What gets run on your infrastructure and what gets run locally?

This is imporant as I'm not sure I'd want to trust yet another service provider with my customers' data, especially one that is VC-backed and therefore inherently less trustworthy in the long-term than others.

[wittydeveloper]

When deployed in non-local environments, background functions get executed on our infrastructure with their (securely stored) arguments, spawn in a dedicated isolated temporary container.

For our users concerned about data locality, we recommend pushing the minimal data as arguments (ex: ids or external ids) and fetching the data during the execution on our side, if needed, through a dedicated SSH tunneling setup. Once an execution is done, its associated isolated container - gets a dedicated VPC and disk - gets destroyed permanently. We will also provide on-premises solutions for Enterprises.

In local environment (dev), background functions run completely synchronously and locally, no call is made to Defer.