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Blockdiff

How we built our own file format for VM disk snapshots. How we built blockdiff, an open-source tool for rapid block-level diffs and snapshots of VM disks. Usually, I’m a researcher working on areas like RL for coding agents – but one day I became annoyed by our slow VM startup times.

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