October 08, 2026•7 min read•Edge Systems•PraLabs Engineering Team
Running Autonomous Agent Loops on ARM64 Linux Edge Nodes
"Deploying 24/7 background agent workers on low-power hardware with thermal guardrails and systemd watchdogs."
#Raspberry Pi#Linux#DevOps#Edge
Cloud servers cost money 24/7, even when agents are idle. Running our agent fleets, repository crawlers, and scheduled summarizers directly on compact ARM64 nodes (like Raspberry Pi 5 with NVMe SSDs) delivers total data sovereignty at near-zero operating costs.
We walk through real-world lessons: managing thermal throttling, configuring memory limits inside Docker, implementing auto-recovering systemd units, and synchronizing state to Postgres with minimal write wear on flash storage.
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