notes from the field
Making cloud run itself,
one agent at a time.
Hands-on writing on agentic infrastructure, MCP, and reliability — from someone shipping it in production at a Fortune-500 aviation platform, not theorizing about it. By Ajin Baby.
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Agent Sandboxes Start 6× Faster Now. Isolation Just Got Cheaper Than the Workaround.
Cloudflare cut median time-to-interactive from 4.0s to 648ms. The number matters because cold start is why teams share sandboxes they shouldn't share.
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NVIDIA Moved the Agent Watchdog to a Different Chip
The Open Agent Safety Platform puts enforcement on a DPU, outside the host the agent runs on. The instinct is decades old. The shape is the question.
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Sagas and Two-Phase Commit: What You Do When There Is No Rollback
Three services, one transaction, and no shared database. Why 2PC blocks, how sagas trade atomicity for compensation, and why compensation is not undo.
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Ajin Baby — 15 years making cloud platforms reliable, 2x founder before that. Azure AI Engineer, Neo4j Certified, IEEE member. More about me →