On the design decision to make VMs persistent, with persistent disks.
Pools: Our Newest Primitive - exe.dev blog
A new way to group VMs, with shared resources and predictable pricing. Plus new Personal and Work plans.
Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates
Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer..
Ephemeral-AI-Lab/layerfs
LayerFS gives every agent an isolated, disposable filesystem fork without copying the shared base. Useful states become durable, deduplicated checkpoints with workspace-scoped tool history—ready to branch, rewind, or reuse across parallel development, environment experiments, and MCTS-style rollouts.
Persistent Storage Options
This API provides database persistence via localStorage/sessionStorage and, in compatible browsers, the Origin-Private FileSystem.
Durable Execution Solutions
Build invincible apps with Temporal's open source durable execution platform. Eliminate complexity and ship features faster. Talk to an expert today!
smol machines — ship and run software with isolation by default
Run any workload in a fast, hardware-isolated Linux VM. The same SDK and the same .smolmachine artifact run identically:
Devs aren't "lazy" and game updates aren't guaranteed | Opinion
Where did the demand that every game must be continually updated come from – and is there a way to avoid the friction it causes?
The Forgetting Problem: Persistence Architectures and What They Cost - Astral's Blog
UI Is a Conservation Layer - The Phoenix Architecture
Why the user interface is the last to become regenerative
Inngest - Durable Execution for Workflows & AI
Build reliable background jobs, workflows, and AI agents without extra infrastructure. Automatic retries, flow control, and step-level observability.
Mount Thor — AI Execution Environments on Apple Hardware
Managed macOS environments for AI workloads that require native desktop access, persistent state, or model inference on Apple silicon.
Sprites - Stateful sandboxes
Persistent, hardware-isolated execution environments for arbitrary code. Run AI agents, untrusted code, and more in secure sandbox environments with checkpoint & restore.
Software 4.0: When Code Stops Being an Artifact
The next step in Andrej Karpathy’s Software evolution: what happens when code is generated at runtime, executed once, and never saved…
smol-machines/smolvm
An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.