Persistent Agents
Hitting Lambda Limits on a Live Agent Product and What the Fix Actually Looks Like
Lambda's 15-minute cap exposes a mismatch with stateful agents.
Tariq Osei-Mensah
· 8 min read
Machine Review
Persistent Agents
Why Long-Running Agent Tasks Belong to a Process, Not a Timeout Budget
Timeouts cap runtime, but only a durable process can recover agent work.
Darius Tran8 min read
Persistent Agents
The Operational Cost of Stitching Serverless Invocations Into a Fake Persistent Agent
Rebuilding state between serverless invocations costs more than the cold starts themselves.
Priya Subramaniam9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Package Installation Workflows in Persistent Agent VMs
How persistent VMs require layered policies to manage dependencies that survive across sessions.
Cecile Marchand-Volkov9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
From Shared Kernel to Per-Agent Micro-VM Without Rebuilding Your Orchestration Layer
Isolate each agent in its own kernel without rewriting your orchestration layer.
Priya Subramaniam8 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Threat Modeling Untrusted AI Agents to Pick the Right Runtime Boundary
Separate reasoning from execution to contain model misbehavior and injection attacks.
Tariq Osei-Mensah8 min read
Persistent Agents
Ephemeral Process Boundaries and the Hidden Failure Modes They Create for Autonomous Agents
Serverless execution loses agent state between runs.
Cecile Marchand-Volkov8 min read
Persistent Agents
What Serverless Execution Environments Take Away From a Running Agent
Serverless functions discard the continuity agents need to complete multi-step tasks.
Darius Tran8 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Safe Code Execution Inside Agent Micro-VMs
Firecracker micro-VMs give AI agents isolated kernels to safely execute untrusted generated code.
Priya Subramaniam9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Networking Isolated Agent VMs at Scale
Firecracker's isolation model makes networking coordination the infrastructure bottleneck at scale.
Tariq Osei-Mensah9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Snapshot and Restore Mechanics in Firecracker
Firecracker's snapshot-restore skips costly guest startup by resuming paused machines mid-execution.
Cecile Marchand-Volkov9 min read
Micro-VM Infrastructure
Kernel Configuration for Firecracker Agent VMs
Customize Firecracker's kernel to isolate agents securely and minimize boot time.
Tariq Osei-Mensah8 min read
