Case Study: AfterQuery achieves 86% faster sandbox creation with Daytona

AfterQuery cuts sandbox creation time by 86% with Daytona

AfterQuery, an applied research lab focused on frontier AI development, faced a significant challenge provisioning isolated, long-running sandboxes for its high-fidelity agent simulations. Their in-house solution built on GKE created massive operational overhead, requiring manual configuration and versioning of hundreds of environments, which limited their research scale and crowded out core work.

By implementing Daytona's runtime platform, AfterQuery replaced its entire infrastructure in a single day. The solution provided fast, stateful sandboxes through features like Snapshots for versioning and Port Forwarding for validation. This resulted in an 86% reduction in sandbox creation times and saved the company over 40 hours of engineering time each week, allowing them to accelerate their research roadmap.

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