Squirrel Stack

The Stack (AKA the Nut Pyramid)

• React (but with three competing internal design systems)
• TypeScript, but only in theory -- half the repo is still .js
• Rust, for exactly one CLI tool no one knows how to rebuild
• Python, but just for a cron job that emails the wrong person at 2 a.m
• GraphQL, because REST is too predictable and we like a challenge

We proudly run on Serverless squirrel burrows-as-a-service (SBaaS) with latency powered by seasonal migrations.

Our AI implementation leverages:

• A Large Language Model fine-tuned exclusively on Stack Overflow answers from 2014
• Squirrel-GPT 5, an in-house generative model that hallucinates accurate JSON 22% of the time
• SquirroFlow, our proprietary AI/ML ops layer built entirely in Excel macros

Storage is managed by NoSQL, SomeSQL, and a SQLite file we mysteriously found in version control from 2009 file mounted to a tree trunk labeled "DO NOT DELETE".

Our observability is elite:

• Logs are streamed into a hollowed-out log (actual tree)
• Metrics are visualized using acorn heatmaps and squirrel scribbles
• Alerts are routed through a Raspberry Pi duct-taped to a pinecone
• World-Class Monitoring, we just wait until Twitter mentions go up

Squirrel Stack is deployed to an AWS EC2 instance named "maybe-prod-final-2" - or is it running on Heroku free tier? We honestly don't know anymore. But we leverage Edge Computing, meaning sometimes our deployments fall off the edge and no one notices for days.

Security is taken seriously:

• All traffic is encrypted using TLS-ish
• Authentication uses OAuth2, JWTs, and a handwritten sticky note with the admin password
• Our DevSecOps policy includes a firewall, a strongly worded README, and a NestJS guard that just yells "NO!"

Our architecture is proudly:

• Composable, as in composed of vaguely working parts
• Web3 ready, meaning we once mentioned blockchain in a Jira ticket
• Quantum-compatible, if you count quantum uncertainty about what's in prod

Design Philosophy

The user experience is intuitive, assuming the user is a caffeine-fueled squirrel with a background in neural networks. Every interaction is optimized for delight, confusion, or spontaneous enlightenment.

Our design includes React with a sprinkle of regret, styled with TailwindCSS and emotionally supported by a legacy jQuery widget someone refuses to delete.

All UI elements were reviewed by our resident UX expert, who has a 3rd-degree black belt in Adobe XD and once won a Dribbble contest using only Comic Sans.

Coming Soon...

• NutSecOps: Because DevSecOps wasn't confusing enough--now with mandatory tail-based two-factor authentication
• Decentralized Acorn Ledger: Blockchain-powered nut tracking. Entirely immutable and completely unnecessary
• SquirrelOS Kernel Panic Mode: Triggers randomly during high performance loads, or snack breaks
• Quantum Nut Computation (QNC): It probably doesn't exist, but our squirrels believe in it
• Virtual Acorn Reality (VAR): Full 4D simulation of winter prepping. Smell-o-vision included
• Serverless Burrows: Hosted in the cloud. Like, actual clouds. Sometimes you lose a packet to a hawk