Top updates from 2026
September 2026
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August & September 2026 | Changelog
Northflank introduced Harnesses for running coding agents in managed workspaces with persistent storage and browser terminals, alongside self-service microVMs on BYOC for untrusted workloads. The plat…
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How to choose a bring your own cloud (BYOC) platform for your enterprise
## TL;DR: how to choose a bring your own cloud platform - **Genuine BYOC means the workload data plane runs in your cloud account, user traffic enters your VPC directly, and infrastructure costs bill …
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Best AI agent harnesses in 2026
## TL;DR: Best AI agent harnesses in 2026 The best AI agent harness depends on how you want to run agents, customize their behavior, and manage their work: 1. **Northflank Cloud Harness:** Best for de…
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Control plane vs data plane in BYOC: What runs where?
Control plane vs data plane in Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a separation of responsibilities: the control plane manages deployments and configuration, while the data plane runs applications and proc…
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GPU autoscaling: How to scale without wasting capacity
GPU autoscaling reduces wasted capacity when you scale application replicas using workload demand, coordinate GPU node capacity with those replicas, and release idle infrastructure while meeting your …
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Northflank vs Runloop: AI sandboxes, pricing, and infrastructure compared
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Runloop Northflank and Runloop both provide isolated execution environments for AI agents and untrusted code. Northflank combines [sandboxing](https://northflank.com/docs/v1/ap…
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How do ephemeral environments reduce infrastructure costs?
## TL;DR: how ephemeral environments reduce infrastructure costs - **Persistent environments accumulate infrastructure costs** even when nobody is using them. Idle compute, overprovisioned resources, …
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Northflank vs Blaxel: AI sandboxes, pricing, and infrastructure compared
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Blaxel Northflank and Blaxel both provide isolated execution environments for AI agents and untrusted code. Northflank combines sandboxing and microVM-backed isolation with the…
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Northflank vs Daytona: sandboxes, pricing, and infrastructure compared
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Daytona Northflank and Daytona both provide isolated sandbox environments for AI agents and untrusted code execution. Northflank integrates Sandboxes and microVM-backed isolati…
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How to run the Codex AI coding agent securely in the cloud
Running Codex securely in the cloud entails setting up an isolated coding workspace and limiting the files, credentials, and network connections the AI coding agent can access. A Codex sandbox adds co…
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How to run the Claude Code AI coding agent securely in the cloud
Running Claude Code securely in the cloud means giving it an isolated workspace and limiting access to files, credentials, and network connections. Claude Code is an AI coding agent that can edit file…
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How to create secure preview environments with isolated sandboxes
A pull request can change the application, its dependencies, and the scripts that run during a build. If its preview inherits production credentials or unrestricted access to internal services, code a…
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Northflank vs Fly.io Sprites: which platform fits your requirements?
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Fly Sprites - **Fly Sprites fit teams that want persistent Linux environments for AI agents**, with Firecracker isolation, durable filesystems, automatic sleep and wake, and ch…
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Coding-agent orchestration: How to manage agents across enterprise teams
Coding agents working across several engineering teams can produce overlapping changes, consume shared test capacity, and leave work waiting for an owner. Your teams need a consistent way to assign ta…
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Northflank vs Fly.io: which deployment platform should you choose?
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Fly.io - **Fly.io fits developers and teams that need distributed deployments** with Firecracker-based isolation, Anycast routing, and scale-to-zero Machines. Workloads run on …
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Northflank vs Qovery: which platform fits your requirements?
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Qovery - **Qovery fits small teams with no DevOps experience** that want a self-service platform for Kubernetes running in their own AWS, GCP, Azure, or Scaleway account, with …
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What is an agent harness? How agent harnesses work
A model can suggest a code change, but completing the task requires something to read the repository, run commands, inspect failures, and preserve progress. Once those actions can affect files or serv…
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Northflank vs Porter: which platform fits your requirements?
## TL;DR: Northflank vs Porter - **Porter fits smaller teams and relatively simple workloads that want a Kubernetes abstraction layer in their own cloud.** It provides managed Kubernetes operations, G…
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How to deploy coding agents at scale
A coding agent can fix a bug, update a dependency, and run tests in one session. When your teams start doing that across many repositories, you also need to control where those sessions run, what they…
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How to run autonomous research agents at scale
## TL;DR: how to run autonomous research agents at scale - Autonomous research agents combine web search, document retrieval, code execution, and synthesis into an autonomous loop, without requiring h…
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