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[Engineering]
How We Boot Firecracker VMs in Under 125ms on Apple Silicon
A deep dive into the architectural decisions that let ArcBox Desktop spin up a fully isolated microVM faster than most containers start.
kai, elias
2026-03-05
Engineering
2026-03-05
How We Boot Firecracker VMs in Under 125ms on Apple Silicon
A deep dive into the architectural decisions that let ArcBox Desktop spin up a fully isolated microVM faster than most containers start.
Engineering
2026-02-12
ArcBox vs Docker Desktop: Container Startup Benchmarks
We ran 10,000 container startups across both platforms on an M3 Max. The results were not close.
Engineering
2026-01-08
GPU Passthrough and Metal Acceleration in ArcBox VMs
We are experimenting with exposing the Apple GPU to Firecracker VMs via Metal API bridging. Early results show 4x GPU throughput for ML inference workloads.