Inside the Box: May Community Update
Tags: webdev, product, community
Published: 2024-06-10 18:27:48

Hi there 👋

With a new month upon us, it's time for a fresh issue of "Inside the Box" with all of last month's highlights.

Let's go!

## Latest Product News

**[Storybook add-on](https://codesandbox.io/blog/announcing-the-codesandbox-storybook-add-on) 🧩** — We're making every story come to life with the [CodeSandbox Storybook add-on](https://github.com/codesandbox/storybook-addon)! After configuring the add-on on your Storybook instance, you will see a button to open that story in a Sandbox, which is great for [design system teams](https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-to-use-codesandbox-with-your-design-system) and sharing bug repros.

![Storybook Button](https://assets.codesandbox.io/images/changelog-storybook-button.jpg)

**[CodeSandbox is now SOC 2 compliant](https://codesandbox.io/blog/codesandbox-is-now-soc-2-compliant)** ✅ — This milestone reflects how we handle and process customers' data securely, meeting key security standards.

![SOC 2 Compliance](https://assets.codesandbox.io/images/soc-2-compliance.png)

**Unlimited public Sandboxes** 🚀 — After countless chats with our users, we decided to update our Free plan so it now includes unlimited public Sandboxes, 5 private Sandboxes and private npm.

**Manual VM hibernation 🧊** — We have added an option to manually hibernate a VM from the editor's menu. This may be useful in cases where you want to immediately stop VM runtime.

![Hibernate VM](https://assets.codesandbox.io/images/changelog-hibernate-vm.jpg)

**VM credit spend meter 🧮** — We have added a UI element to the bottom left of the dashboard that displays VM credit expenditure in reference to the allocated quota. This makes it easier to monitor your spending.

![VM Runtime Meter](https://assets.codesandbox.io/images/changelog-vm-runtime-meter.jpg)

**Public VM templates for free** — We have updated the logic of our public templates running in VMs so that their runtime is not billed to the workspace that created the template. This way, we're empowering everyone to create and share powerful templates with the community at no extra cost.

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## Web Bytes

**[How we scale our microVM infrastructure using low-latency memory decompression](https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-scale-our-microvm-infrastructure-using-low-latency-memory-decompression)** — If you have a knack for infrastructure, you probably don't want to miss this blog post by our Co-Founder Ives, who explains how we scale our infrastructure to handle 2.5 million microVM resumes per month.

![Decompression Banner](https://assets.codesandbox.io/images/blog-decompression-banner.png)

**[JS Heroes 2024](https://x.com/jsheroes/status/1795818857065759218)** — It's all good vibes after this year's JS Heroes conference, founded by our Product Engineer Alex Moldovan. Lots of familiar faces around and many demos run in CodeSandbox. A sight to behold!

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## Thank You 🖤

We hope you enjoyed this issue of Inside the Box!

We are curious about what **you** feel is missing from these newsletters and what **you** would like us to add to the next one!

What should we bring next? Tell us on [our community space](https://www.codesandbox.community/)!