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zei.sh is a cloud platform providing ephemeral microVM sandboxes (Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor) for AI agent execution.

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I have been thinking about AI infrastructure from the compute side more than the model side.

I have been thinking a lot about scheduling lately, especially once warm starts and reservations enter the picture.

I love logs, but logs alone have not been enough for the kind of machine lifecycle work I have been doing.

I actually like SSH.

When I started thinking about exposing services from machines, one plain question kept showing up: How does traffic reach a machine?

Once private networking starts to work, DNS becomes the next obvious problem.

After getting machines to boot reliably, networking was the next thing that forced me to slow down and think properly.

One of the things I care about most in a compute platform is startup time.

I like control planes that can die without drama.

After removing the earlier draft for this slot, I still wanted a post here that explains one of the most important parts of the platform: what actually happens on the worker node when a machine gets created.

While working on the worker side of the platform, one thing became obvious pretty quickly: machine lifecycle code looks easy only when you test happy paths.

Over the past couple of years, I have been spending a lot of time with Firecracker, microVMs, and a distributed compute platform I have been building.

I had a lot of files in a git repository, which I didn't want to add in git, So to remove all of them to a temporary directory I used a collection of Unix commands. git status --porcelain | awk '{print $2}' | xargs mv -t ..

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In the heart of Himachal's Parvati Valley lie its hidden gems: Pulga and Kalga.

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In this article, we will be looking into setting up networking on a linux box from scratch.

VM on Google Compute Engine (GCE) supports nested virtualisation, unlike AWS, and allows to run KVM.

How to ignore new files Globally Add the path(s) to your file(s) which you would like to ignore to your .gitignore file (and commit them).

I created a static website linkbin, Where I could save links in a markdown file that can be viewed later.

I personally love writing APIs.

Scrapy is great for scraping static web pages with Python, but when it comes to dynamic pages it can only do so much.

A couple of days ago (at the time of writing), I started my newest side project.

So I'd been working with Django, Flask, and Express.js for a while, and my database of choice for pretty much every project had, of course, always been Postgres.

I'm a programmer.

I'm going to make a bold statement: Django replaced Ruby on Rails in the hearts of many developers.

In this short post (spoiler: it's actually quite lengthy), I'm going to walk through a list of useful methods in the os module (which is part of the Python standard library) for handling files and directories. 1.

A short list of Python tricks that make day-to-day code a little nicer.

As developers, we all (hopefully) use git.

I'm currently sitting at the most boring meetup I've probably ever attended in Delhi.

Theory Quicksort is a "divide and conquer" type of algorithm.

Some theory Bubble sort is one of the most commonly known sorting algorithms.