Scaling opencomputer from 1 VM to 1 million sandboxes

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Author: iacguy

Date: 6/18/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses how the company OpenComputer scaled its infrastructure to handle a large number of sandboxes by breaking down its architecture into cells, each containing a control plane and workers, and using a global registry at the edge to route sandbox creations to the cell with available capacity.