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fal-serverless is a serverless Python runtime that lets you run and scale code in the cloud with no infra management.

With fal-serverless, you can build pipelines, serve ML models and scale them up to many users. You scale down to 0 when you don't use any resources.

fal-serverless supports custom compute resources including GPUs (A100s and T4).

Let's discover fal-serverless in less than 2 minutes.

Install fal-serverless​

Get started by installing fal-serverless:

pip install fal-serverless

Login using the auth command:

fal-serverless auth login

Create a Python script​

Create a new Python file, for example try_fal_serverless.py.

In this file, define a decorated function that returns a joke:

from fal_serverless import isolated

@isolated(requirements=["pyjokes"])
def isolated_joke():
  import pyjokes
  return pyjokes.get_joke()

print(isolated_joke())

Run your script​

Run your script with python:

python try_fal_serverless.py

This should print out a joke, for example How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, that's a hardware problem.

Congratulations! You have successfully run a function on fal-serverless!

Ready for more?​

See our examples.