Managing GPUs by Just Asking, Infrastructure in the Age of MCP
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Jessica Garson Beauchemin
Runpod
Developer Relations Lead & Community
How do you run an autonomous AI agent in the cloud 24/7 without wasting a fortune or managing servers?
If you are building long-running agents, you know the hosting dilemma: standard serverless platforms scale to zero, which instantly kills your background loops and wipes your agentβs active memory. Dedicated VMs keep the agent awake, but they cost more and leave you stuck managing the infrastructure.
The fix is a new compute primitive: Cloud Run instances.
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to deploy a single, always-on container to host a continuous background agent. Stepping into the role of a coffee shop manager, you will build an AI assistant using the Agent Development Kit (ADK) that continuously analyzes business data. You will also leverage Cloud Run sandboxes, enabling your agent to dynamically write, execute, and test code on the fly to solve complex problems safely.
Stop managing infrastructure and start building agents that never sleep!
World Congress 2026 North America
Jessica Garson Beauchemin
Runpod
Developer Relations Lead & Community
Emmanuel Acheampong
Crusoe AI
Sr. Manager Developer Relations
Benny Chen
Fireworks
Co-Founder
Khaja Omer
Akamai Technologies
Senior Software Engineer
Sheilah Kirui
Akamai
Sr. Developer Advocate