Emir Beganović

Staff SRE at Booking.com, working on CI, Developer Experience and Platform Engineering.

Founder of Isorun, a hardware-isolated microVM runtime for AI agents.

Mostly interested in build systems, CI at scale and agentic sandboxes.

Based in Amsterdam.

GitHub · LinkedIn · Isorun

Projects

Isorun — Sandboxes in milliseconds. Fully isolated Linux microVMs from any Docker image, with fork, hibernate/resume, snapshot/restore, public URLs and per-second billing. Launched June 2026. Docs · TypeScript SDK
kernelbuild-buildkit — A BuildKit frontend that builds reproducible Linux kernels from a Kernelfile with stock docker build. Artifacts boot directly in Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor. Go, MIT. Released September 2026.
ocicdn.net — Free global pull-through cache for every public OCI registry (Docker Hub, GHCR, Quay, registry.k8s.io, GCR, MCR), built on Cloudflare Workers and R2. No account, no setup, free forever.
gitdelivr.net — CDN for public Git repositories.

Writing

June 2026: From Sarajevo internet cafés to 100,000 agent sandboxes: why I’m building the laptop for AI agents — the Isorun launch story
March 2026: Your Container Is Not a Sandbox: The State of MicroVM Isolation in 2026
August 2019, APNIC: Analysing global CDN performance
August 2019, RIPE Labs: Analysing global CDN performance
August 2019, infoq.cn: In pursuit of speed, we tested all CDNs worldwide (Chinese)
June 2019: Analysing global CDN performance
March 2019: Microservices in Go
April 2018, Blackfire.io: Road to Blackfire.io presentation: organising the meetup

Talks

Upcoming — October 15, 2026, SREcon26 EMEA, Dublin: When Partitioning Beats Sharing: Ephemeral MicroVMs for CI at Scale, with Luka Stout
October 2021, Google Next ‘21: How Booking.com uses Apigee on Anthos to enhance the customer’s experience (video)
April 2019, RIPE SEE 8: Analysing Global CDN Performance using RIPE Atlas (video)
April 2019, RIPE SEE 8: Importance of Local Content (video)
April 2018, ViennaPHP: Profiling and inspection with Blackfire (slides)
November 2017, ViennaPHP: Static code analysis in PHP (slides)
September 2011, RIPE SEE 1: Starting An Internet Exchange Point: Lessons learnt (video)