Isolation: VMs, Containers, Namespaces, Oh my! | DenverScript August 2026
Details
This month you'll hear about all the ways to isolate development work including VMs, Containers and Namespaces.
We're always looking for speakers. Submit your talk here: https://forms.gle/5A26sY5475X8J14S8
Food and drinks will be provided.
This meetup will be recorded and uploaded (not live-streamed) to our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DenverScriptMeetup
Agenda
6:00 PM - Networking
6:15 PM - JS News
6:30 PM - Short Talk TBD
7:00 PM - Isolation: VMs, Containers, Namespaces, Oh my! by Sam Currie
Talk Descriptions
Isolation: VMs, Containers, Namespaces, Oh my! by Sam Currie
There's a ton of isolation mechanisms out there (e.g. for agent operations), each with advantages and disadvantages. Let's review the basic levels of isolation and good applications for each:
- Basic Linux namespacing, cgroups, etc
- Node isolates
- Common isolation methods for different agent harnesses
- Container runtimes
- Virtual machines & KVM
- Use cases and tradeoffs
- Isolation within application architecture
Speaker Bios
Sam Currie was previously the head of infrastructure at Flatfile and Obvious AI and now the CEO at Heyo Computer. He has run workloads at scale on various technologies including Kubernetes/containers, VMs, Node isolates (and predecessors) lambdas, and sandboxes (e.g. E2B).