Releasesby IbisShared Serverless for Asset Bundles (Beta)
Beta2 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 24, 2026
With Shared Serverless for Asset Bundles, notebooks and files in the same bundle can share serverless compute and an environment defined in the bundle-root pyproject.toml file. Workspace admins can enable Project-Scoped Shared Compute on the Previews page . See Shared Serverless for Asset Bundles .
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