Google Described Its Agent Sandbox. I Built One with Firecracker and Measured It | antonau.tech

An engineer built a microVM-based agent sandbox using Firecracker in Go to measure its performance and replicate Google's recently described Agent Compute Engine design. Testing showed that 64 idle forks of a 512 MiB VM cost about 3 MiB of host memory each, while snapshot restores answered in 25 ms on bare metal compared to a cold boot. Open article →