#infrastructure

Langfuse got acquired by ClickHouse. Helicone hit maintenance mode. OpenTelemetry standardized LLM tracing. The observability stack for agents reshuffled in three months. Here's what it looks like now.

Firecracker microVMs, gVisor containers, persistent workspaces, and the $24M Series A nobody quite expected. The sandbox layer beneath every serious agent — and how to pick the right one.

Three deployment shapes for production agents — request/response, long-running stateful, and background batch — with the trade-offs around Cloud Run, Kubernetes, managed runtimes, and queue workers.

Fourteen months in, the Model Context Protocol stopped being a curiosity and started being plumbing. Here's what changed over the holidays — registries, governance, and the first scaling pains.