Olivia Johnston mentions Firecracker as a technology that solved isolation for an outdated unit of trust, without expressing support or opposition.
Olivia Johnston ·
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Sidecars: A low-latency trust boundary for Sandboxes | Modal Blog
Original excerpt
technologies like gVisor and Firecracker “solved” “isolation” nearly eight years ago. Unfortunately for us, they solved it for an now-outdated unit of trust. How do you protect users from their “own” code?
Context
At Modal, our customers rely on Sandboxes to execute untrusted code written by their downstream users or, almost exclusively now, by agents. Running untrusted code isn’t a new problem: every cloud provider has to do this from day 1 to isolate their platform from their user and their users from each other. Fortunately,
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