Persistent Agents
Long-Horizon Agent Tasks Need a Process That Outlives Any Function Invocation
Agents keep progress through interruptions only on persistent runtimes.
Soren Valck
· 8 min read
Cloud Tech Weekly
Persistent Agents
When Lambda Timeout Errors Are Telling You to Rethink Your Execution Model
Timeout errors on Lambda agents signal you need persistent infrastructure, not just a higher limit.
Marcus Oduya8 min read
Persistent Agents
Why Serious Agent Products Graduate From Serverless to Owned Execution Environments
Agents need persistent state and fast resume that serverless cannot provide.
Soren Valck9 min read
Persistent Agents
Execution Environments That Production Agent Companies Actually Run
Firecracker microVMs are how production agents isolate untrusted code safely.
Marcus Oduya9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Provisioning a Dedicated Kernel for Each AI Agent Using Firecracker on Bare Infrastructure
Firecracker gives AI agents isolated kernels to safely execute untrusted generated code.
Priya Nathani9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Why Containers and Serverless Wrappers Fail the Untrusted Agent Isolation Bar
Micro-VMs offer hardware-enforced isolation that containers and serverless simply cannot provide.
Priya Nathani8 min read
Persistent Agents
How Serverless Concurrency Models Undermine Autonomous Agent Coordination
Serverless functions lack the persistent state agents need for coordinated execution.
Linh Tran-Kessler8 min read
Persistent Agents
Why Serverless Event Loops Cannot Hold the Causal Thread of an Autonomous Agent Run
Serverless functions lose the causal thread autonomous agents need to run correctly.
Soren Valck8 min read
Snapshot-Restore Economics
Snapshot and Restore Scheduling for Idle AI Agents
Snapshot-restore saves money only when the scheduler times it well.
Priya Nathani9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Safe Code Execution Inside Agent Micro-VMs
Firecracker isolates agent code execution with its own kernel and network controls.
Marcus Oduya8 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Agent VM Root Filesystem Design With Overlayfs
OverlayFS layers provide reversible filesystem state and storage efficiency for untrusted AI agents.
Linh Tran-Kessler9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Networking Architecture for Isolated Agent VMs
Per-VM networking isolates agents and tracks their actions across fleet scale.
Priya Nathani9 min read
