Comment by kentonv

For the record, I wasn't thinking of Darude's Sandstorm when I named the project. :)

EDIT: What I was thinking, at the time, was "sandbox in the cloud". But these days I like to retcon the name to be about granularity. Sandstorm's major technological innovation is fine-grained containerization, which is described in detail here: https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works