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4 posts tagged isolation.

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Sep 3, 2026

AI Agent Sandboxes: What They Are and How to Choose One

What an AI agent sandbox is at the systems level, the four properties that decide one, and how 15 platforms compare — from an engineer who built one of them.

10 min
Sep 3, 2026

AI Agent Sandbox Runtime: The Six Options and Who Uses Them

Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, containers, V8 isolates and libkrun compared — how each isolates, what it costs in memory, and which sandbox vendors run it.

10 min
Sep 2, 2026

Isolation Is Not an Abuse Control: Lessons From My Fleet

A free-tier signup mined crypto on my microVM fleet in 27 minutes. Containment held perfectly and it changed nothing. What I built afterwards, in what order.

9 min
Sep 2, 2026

Container vs microVM vs gVisor: Choosing Agent Isolation

A practical guide to picking an isolation model for AI-agent code execution, from someone who runs a Firecracker fleet: five models, five axes, one table.

9 min
Ajay Kumar

Infrastructure engineer, 14 years. I build systems that run other people's code safely — and I'm available for consulting.

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