@kylejeong: Containers are fast. VMs are safe. Everyone building agent infra needs both. That's not just an opinion, it's the probl…
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The author argues that building agent infrastructure requires both the speed of containers and the safety of VMs, highlighting AWS Firecracker as a solution that combines both.
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Containers are fast. VMs are safe. Everyone building agent infra needs both.
That’s not just an opinion, it’s the problem Firecracker was built to solve.
I wrote about how it works with interactive components. https://t.co/R2aTO6pfbM
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