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Introducing SPACE, the sandbox platform behind Perplexity Computer. It creates isolated environments for code, files, and long-running agent sessions. SPACE has handled 100% of Computer production traffic since June. https://lnkd.in/gxNTgx-Q Agent infrastructure must be functional, efficient, and secure and traditional sandboxes were built for short-lived code execution. Agents need to run code, edit files, and run for hours or days. Runtimes must preserve work without leaving credentials inside environments. SPACE separates the session from the sandbox running it. Each task gets a disposable Firecracker microVM that is destroyed when the work ends. Rolling snapshots preserve live memory and files, so the session can pause, resume, or branch across sandboxes. On identical production traffic, SPACE reduced median sandbox creation latency from 185 ms to 60 ms. P90 fell from 447 ms to 89 ms. Last week it handled millions of sandbox creations and tens of millions of reconnects for Computer. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gSFrn7bW