Depot Metal's autoscaler grew from a simple pressure loop into a topology-aware system for compute and storage. Next, it must predict demand and converge on desired capacity.
AI can produce code faster than you can review it, but you're still the one on call when it breaks. You need an AI-assisted workflow you trust: linter guardrails, reference tests the agent can copy, tight AGENTS.md files, and PRs small enough to review. The goal isn't to avoid AI, it's to stay in control of what it ships.
Depot CI's VM scheduler is just-in-time: no pre-warming, no warm pool of standby VMs. We stacked optimizations to get microVM cold boots from 7 to 9 seconds down to under a second, and this post walks through each one.
microVMs are everywhere in 2026, especially for CI and sandboxes. But when you're building a platform, choosing between QEMU microvm and cloud-hypervisor isn't obvious. We compare API support, GPU passthrough, snapshotting, live migration, and hotplugging.
We ran iOS builds across different EBS disk configurations on EC2 macOS instances to find the optimal setup. We discovered that simply throwing more IOPS at the problem doesn't work the way you'd expect.
When upstream systems fail, retries pile up fast and your database becomes the bottleneck. Here's how we used PlanetScale's Insights to identify and fix the queries that were slowing us down during thundering herd events.
