Profiling and Optimizing an AI Agent's Resource Usage
A deep dive into analyzing a deployed Hermes agent's RAM and disk footprint, the five changes that cut its memory reservation in half, and the SQLite performance tuning that made it snappier.
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Migrating an AI Agent from Incus to Docker: A Security Retrospective
Why I moved my autonomous AI agent (Hermes) from an Incus container to a hardened Docker Compose stack — seccomp, read-only rootfs, dropped capabilities, network segmentation, and the tradeoffs I made along the way.
How 10 Orphaned AI Processes Ate My Server's RAM (And How I Fixed It)
A debugging story about orphaned processes, memory pressure, and the simple fixes that prevent long-running AI agents from silently consuming your server's RAM.