The team and I are happy to answer any questions you might have about fRPC, Frisbee, or Loophole in general!
We wrote fRPC because we really liked the DevX and tooling around the proto3 syntax, but we needed the generated code to be significantly more performant than what gRPC provides.
We also needed the ability to extend the RPC framework with other messaging patterns (like pub/sub) and we needed to be able to reuse the underlying TCP connections as required.
Today, fRPC can outperform gRPC by more than 4x, doing more than 2 million RPCs/second on a single node.
We'll be releasing an update soon that will enable both custom domains (so you can bring your own) and reservable subdomains. Furthermore we plan on releasing a self-hosted version and open-sourcing the client.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing this out! I assumed that asking people to verify their emails would be enough but it never hurts to make things clear.
This was a mistake on our website, which as since been removed.
1. We'll be open sourcing our client in the coming weeks so you can check out our code yourselves.
2. We will be offering a self-hosted version which will decouple you entirely from our infrastructure and you can provide you own SSL certificates.
3. Lynk can forward traffic to your encrypted services - which of course would mean losing out on compression benefits, but Lynk is designed primarily for quick development work like testing out a Stripe or Github webhook on your local machine, or demoing your webapp to a remote client. For production use we recommend a reverse proxy or self-hosting Lynk.
You allow the user's machine to obtain a valid certificate for a subdomain of lynk.sh? (This would seem to me the only way to accomplish E2EE, given the example of connecting over TLS to a lynk.sh host, and it also seems very unlikely.)
You could use this "for dev" and "for prod" as a marketing/business opportunity. Distinct bullets points of use cases in "For Dev" and "For Prod" sections. For prod there are also add-on options that would not make sense for dev, and could provide additional value (custom support, pre-built packages for distros, analytics on traffic/usage analytics about the tunneled services, etc)
We'll be releasing a self-hosted server and client soon that will allow you to decouple completely from our infrastructure and bring your own SSL certificates.
However, to be clear, this is intended primarily for local development use, for traffic that isn't necessarily sensitive.
If you could checkpoint a GPU quickly enough it would be possible to run multiple isolated workloads on the same GPUs without any issues.