New @CMUDB Seminar Series: Whatever Andy Found Interesting While Out At Sea
An eclectic collection of database technical talks. Mondays @ 4:30pm ET starting Sep 21 over Zoom. Youtube afterwards. db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fall2…
Pekka Enberg
@penberg
Founder & CTO @tursodatabase; previously @ScyllaDB and Linux kernel. Author of "Latency" (amzn.to/4nKI3Un).
- Forking a live container representing an agent workspace sounds like an interesting approach!Announcing a tech blog series on how we fork a coding agent’s entire live workspace in < 1sec Blog 0: Why we chose live containers as the virtualization layer tinyurl.com/4p8w5vzr Blog 1: How we change Linux to efficiently clone process trees + memory tinyurl.com/mfnnfrmx
- I was expecting the reasoning models book to arrive, but I am happy to wait some more to read this first!
- Experimental evaluation with coding agents is so powerful! You can have the agents build benchmarks to answer any questions or hypotheticals you have. In contrast, in the pre-agent era, the human time cost of answering a question was so high that you always had to prioritize,
- I am also experimenting with using Docker images as the source filesystem that you branch off from. It's a great fit for Chimera's filesystem model, and has the benefit of having an immutable base filesystem to work with. The downside, of course, is that now you lose access toI added support for filesystem branching to Chimera. When you run `chimera run` it automatically branches the host filesystem. Anything you do is isolated the branch. However, you can also now branch from a filesystem branch!
