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This is really impressive work on the infrastructure side. Skipping hyperscalers like AWS for Hetzner/OVH is definitely a massive lever, but your choice of gVisor for memory overcommit is where this gets technically interesting. A few questions on the implementation: • Memory & Density: Since gVisor allows you to share memory without reserving a full VM's allocation, how are you handling noisy neighbors if multiple sandboxes spike in RAM usage simultaneously? Are you using specific cgroups configurations or out-of-memory (OOM) killer tuning to prevent one sandbox from crashing the host? • Storage Persistence: You mentioned that files stay with the agent across sessions. How are you handling the storage layer efficiently at $0.05–$0.10/user? Are you using localized NVMe storage with networked backups, or something like ceph/block storage? • Cold Starts: When a sandbox wakes up from auto-sleep, what is the exact latency for the user? Congrats on the launch and the pivot from a simple wrapper to a real infrastructure play!
parent pathly 19 days ago

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