Rauch: Stateless sandboxes are the wrong benchmark; agents need to carry their workspace
The Vercel developer account states that Vercel Sandboxes with Drives start 2.4x faster, with median creation time dropping from 1.7s to 0.7s and p95 dropping from 2.2s to 1.6s, with no SDK upgrade or configuration changes required. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch commented that stateless sandboxes are the wrong benchmark, and that agents are only useful when they carry their own workspace (identity, skills, repositories, memory, etc.); he also praised the Vercel Sandbox team for delivering on latency and throughput SLOs, while maintaining reliability and security amid clusters deployed across 19 global regions, new features shipping weekly, and week-over-week demand growth in the double digits.
View original postVercel Sandboxes with Drives start 2.4x faster. • Median creation drops from 1.7s to 0.7s • p95 creation drops from 2.2s to 1.6s • No SDK upgrade or config changes needed https://t.co/nuQLD0BZrp
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Vercel Sandboxes with Drives start 2.4x faster. • Median creation drops from 1.7s to 0.7s • p95 creation drops from 2.2s to 1.6s • No SDK upgrade or config changes needed https://t.co/nuQLD0BZrp
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Stateless sandboxes are the wrong benchmark. Agents are only useful if they have their workspace with them (identity, skills, repos, memories…)
Vercel Sandbox team has been beautifully delivering on their latency & throughput SLOs, while prioritizing reliability and security.
Doing this while shipping clusters in 19 (‼️) global regions, new features every week, and under immense amount of customer demand in the double digit growth percentage per week.