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We care deeply about reliable systems and the craft of operating engineering at scale. This blog is where Cortex engineers share what we're building, how we built it, and what we learned along the way.

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Building trustworthy agents for Operational Excellence reviews

How and why we built an agent to drive an engineering process

authorAaron Wirick
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Snapshots, copy-on-write, and the economics of agent sandboxes

How we crammed thousands of isolated agents onto a single machine

authorNikhil Unni
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read_time10 min
engramssoftware-factoriesai-agentssandboxing

Sandboxing AI agents: Building a microVM

Your AI agent is about to run rm -rf and curl | sh. Let's build a microVM for it to run in, directly in your browser.

authorNikhil Unni
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read_time9 min
engramssoftware-factoriesai-agentssandboxing

The software factory is an operating model, not a coding agent

Every company already has a software factory. The question is not whether they will build one, but how much of it they will automate.

authorNikhil Unni
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read_time10 min
engramssoftware-factoriescoding-agentssdlc

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