# Firecracker Projects at AI Tinkerers

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An open source virtualization technology purpose-built for launching secure, multi-tenant microVMs in fractions of a second.

Built by Amazon Web Services to power resource-intensive services like AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, Firecracker is a minimalist virtual machine monitor (VMM) that leverages the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to spin up lightweight microVMs. It strips away legacy device drivers and non-essential guest capabilities to achieve a startup time of under 5 milliseconds and a memory footprint of just 5 megabytes per VM. This tight design allows operators to pack thousands of isolated workloads onto a single bare-metal server, combining the ironclad security of traditional hardware virtualization with the rapid deployment and low overhead of containers.

- Official technology site: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Turn your Homelab into a Dark Factory](https://cologne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_iWZxTrC9hQ8)

I turned my Homelab into a dark factory where I run an orchestrating agent that schedules and delegates work to other agents. There are two parts to this system: the control plane, which handles where agents run and how they run, and the data plane, which handles the actual work you commit (or not). We're going to see how I interact with a personal agent (Hermes, if I have time, I'll show my own agent) and how Hermes decides what to do next depending on our conversation. Instead of making Hermes write the code, it will delegate the tasks to different coding agents running in our own sandbox (built with Firecracker on top of a Proxmox VM). I'll walk you through the different components, how it works and why it matters (in particular the sandbox part).

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Cologne: World Cup Edition — 2026-07-15 — Cologne
- Public talk page: https://cologne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_iWZxTrC9hQ8

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