diff --git a/agents-api/agents_api/env.py b/agents-api/agents_api/env.py
index 9912e8d4b..20e5ac494 100644
--- a/agents-api/agents_api/env.py
+++ b/agents-api/agents_api/env.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 # -----
 task_max_parallelism: int = env.int("AGENTS_API_TASK_MAX_PARALLELISM", default=100)
 transition_requests_per_minute: int = env.int(
-    "AGENTS_API_TRANSITION_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE", default=100
+    "AGENTS_API_TRANSITION_REQUESTS_PER_MINUTE", default=500
 )
 
 
@@ -114,17 +114,27 @@
 temporal_activity_after_retry_timeout: int = env.int(
     "TEMPORAL_ACTIVITY_AFTER_RETRY_TIMEOUT", default=30
 )
-temporal_max_concurrent_workflow_tasks: int = env.int(
-    "TEMPORAL_MAX_CONCURRENT_WORKFLOW_TASKS", default=None
+
+def _parse_optional_int(val: str | None) -> int | None:
+    if not val or val.lower() == "none":
+        return None
+    return int(val)
+
+# Temporal worker configuration
+temporal_max_concurrent_workflow_tasks: int | None = _parse_optional_int(
+    env.str("TEMPORAL_MAX_CONCURRENT_WORKFLOW_TASKS", default=None)
 )
-temporal_max_concurrent_activities: int = env.int(
-    "TEMPORAL_MAX_CONCURRENT_ACTIVITIES", default=100
+
+temporal_max_concurrent_activities: int | None = _parse_optional_int(
+    env.str("TEMPORAL_MAX_CONCURRENT_ACTIVITIES", default=None)
 )
-temporal_max_activities_per_second: int = env.int(
-    "TEMPORAL_MAX_ACTIVITIES_PER_SECOND", default=None
+
+temporal_max_activities_per_second: int | None = _parse_optional_int(
+    env.str("TEMPORAL_MAX_ACTIVITIES_PER_SECOND", default=None)
 )
-temporal_max_task_queue_activities_per_second: int = env.int(
-    "TEMPORAL_MAX_TASK_QUEUE_ACTIVITIES_PER_SECOND", default=None
+
+temporal_max_task_queue_activities_per_second: int | None = _parse_optional_int(
+    env.str("TEMPORAL_MAX_TASK_QUEUE_ACTIVITIES_PER_SECOND", default=None)
 )
 
 # Consolidate environment variables
diff --git a/memory-store/Dockerfile b/memory-store/Dockerfile
index 3821c2662..fa384cb12 100644
--- a/memory-store/Dockerfile
+++ b/memory-store/Dockerfile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Then copy the run.sh script to the ./run.sh file
 
 # First stage: Build the Rust project
-FROM rust:1.80.1-bookworm AS builder
+FROM rust:1.83-bookworm AS builder
 
 # Install required dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 
 # Build cozo-ce-bin from crates.io
 WORKDIR /usr/src
-RUN cargo install cozo-ce-bin@0.7.13-alpha.1 --features "requests graph-algo storage-new-rocksdb storage-sqlite jemalloc io-uring malloc-usable-size"
+# RUN cargo install cozo-ce-bin@0.7.13-alpha.3 --features "requests graph-algo storage-new-rocksdb storage-sqlite jemalloc io-uring malloc-usable-size"
+RUN cargo install --git https://github.com/cozo-community/cozo.git --branch f/publish-crate --rev 592f49b --profile release -F graph-algo -F  jemalloc -F io-uring -F storage-new-rocksdb -F malloc-usable-size --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu cozo-ce-bin
 
 # Copy the built binary to /usr/local/bin
 RUN cp /usr/local/cargo/bin/cozo-ce-bin /usr/local/bin/cozo
diff --git a/memory-store/options b/memory-store/options
index 55f102f61..8a2a30378 100644
--- a/memory-store/options
+++ b/memory-store/options
@@ -210,5 +210,4 @@
   cache_index_and_filter_blocks=true
   block_align=false
   optimize_filters_for_memory=true
-  flush_block_policy_factory=FlushBlockBySizePolicyFactory
-  
+  flush_block_policy_factory=FlushBlockBySizePolicyFactory
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/memory-store/run.sh b/memory-store/run.sh
index b810cf3a5..fa03f664d 100755
--- a/memory-store/run.sh
+++ b/memory-store/run.sh
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ ${APP_HOME:=.}/bin/cozo server \
     --path $COZO_MNT_DIR/${COZO_ROCKSDB_DIR} \
     --bind 0.0.0.0 \
     --port ${COZO_PORT:=9070} \
-    -c '{"enable_write_buffer_manager": true, "allow_stall": true, "lru_cache_mb": 1024, "write_buffer_mb": 1024}'
+    -c '{"enable_write_buffer_manager": true, "allow_stall": true, "lru_cache_mb": 4096, "write_buffer_mb": 4096}'