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Overview

Roadmap & Changelog

Up Next

  • 🧷 Count and scan primitives — filter-count mode, snapshot truncation removal, route renames (RFC 0019, #67)
  • 🚑 Indexing failure-mode E2E runbook — Aerospike stop-writes + Postgres pressure (#55)
  • 🧬 Embedding UDF writeback via row re-upsert (#52)
  • 🌱 Namespace init UDF for first-time embed population
  • 🚦 Snapshot-aware ready signal — layer.is_stable honors UDF state (#46)
  • 🎨 Full dashboard redesign — 6-tab layout from the prototype (#11)

Later

  • 🔐 RBAC: scoped API keys and entitlements as a Layer primitive (#8)
  • ♻️ Soft delete with TTL + restore (#7)
  • 🪢 Hybrid text search via RRF (#18)
  • ⌨️ Typeahead via Turbopuffer regex index (#19)
  • 🕰️ Temporal queries — as_of selector for /query, /scans, /fetch, and /snapshots (RFC 0020, #68)
  • 🌿 copy_from_with_filter — time travel + subset branching (#20)
  • 🐇 Exact kNN result cache keyed by consistency watermark (#21)
  • 🧪 A/B variant indexes with operator-controlled rollout (#23)
  • 🦚 Per-query observability with LLM-judged Tail Quality (#41)
  • 🎞️ Pipeline crash recovery via source replay + deterministic IDs (#43)
  • ☠️ Paginated UDF dead-letter list (#44)
  • 🏗️ Narrow cluster topology defaults (#45)
  • 📣 Write amplification baselines (#15)
  • 📮 layer push — Python UDF dev experience via Depot (#64)

0.1 Release (UAT)

API hardening

  • 🧩 Scaling CRD consolidation — Pipeline, UDF, InfraRules (RFC 0012)
  • 🎛️ Index CRD redesign (RFC 0013)
  • 📸 Snapshot scan naming conventions (RFC 0014)
  • 🧹 Remove unused APIs

Lifecycle and operability

Surfaces

  • 🪟 Dashboard MVP — basic CRD management and observability
  • 🐚 layer CLI MVP — kube-style commands for Layer
  • 🐍 Official Python SDK