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 and code execution, especially CI at scale and agentic sandboxes. Long-time Linux and open source contributor.
Based in Amsterdam.
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
Kernelfilewith stockdocker build. Artifacts boot directly in Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor. Go, MIT. Released September 2026. - Try Omarchy: Omarchy Linux with a Hyprland desktop, running in your browser. A fresh machine per visitor, streamed as H.264 over WebSocket and decoded with WebCodecs, built on Cloudflare Containers. No install, no account. Fan-made, not affiliated with Omarchy.
- 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)