Engineering Blog
Technical deep-dives on container infrastructure, security architecture, and the future of workload isolation.
The Software Revolution: Declare Independence from IT Waste
July 4, 2026
From the 4th of July to the 5th of November — a campaign to end the taxes you never agreed to pay: the daemon tax, the idle tax, the licensing tax, and the trust deficit. Here’s what we’re liberating, and how.
Be The Cloud
July 4, 2026
For twenty years, “the cloud” meant renting someone else’s computers. It doesn’t have to — the devices you already own can be the fleet that runs your workloads, at a fraction of the power. The case for mobile-first infrastructure.
Why We Built Our Own VMM (And What 0.551ms Taught Us)
March 21, 2026
How the team at Armored Gate built VoltVisor — a custom KVM-based micro VMM in ~24,000 lines of Rust. The journey from containers to VMs, and why every problem led to the next solution.
Docker for Dev. Volt for Prod.
March 21, 2026
Docker changed everything 13 years ago. But development tools don’t belong in production. Here’s what does.
The Uncomfortable Truth About Podman: It’s Docker’s Kernel All the Way Down
March 21, 2026
A technical analysis of why “daemonless” doesn’t mean “different” — and what actually solves the shared kernel problem.