I Gave 100 Fly Brains Their Own Computers to Play Doom

Running 100 simulated fruit fly brains from the MaleCNS connectome, each on its own Namespace Devbox, to see how silencing a handful of neurons changes how a fly plays Doom.

Agata Fin — October 14, 2026

Announcing our $42M Series B

Namespace recently closed a $42 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from NEA, 20VC, and others, bringing its total funding to $65 million.

Hugo Santos — October 5, 2026

Introducing Git Snapshots for Cursor Origin and GitHub

Git Snapshots prepare a repository and working tree once and reuse that snapshot across Namespace Linux and macOS runners. Available on Cursor Origin through Buildkite, and on GitHub through GitHub Actions or Buildkite.

Nicolas Dular — September 30, 2026

How we made container image loading fast

Here's how a container image boots before its own download finishes: baked into a disk ahead of time, replicated everywhere, then streamed in block by block.

Matteo Kamm — September 15, 2026

Cursor & Namespace: Partnering with Cursor to give cloud agents a real computer

We're partnering with Cursor to give cloud agents a real computer. Cursor starts and manages the agent, while shell commands, file edits, repo access, builds, and tests run on Namespace Devboxes, including support for Mac.

Hugo Santos — September 2, 2026

Hunting a delayed deadlock that hid for two years in Namespace's tiered Bazel cache

A bug sat dormant in Namespace's tiered Bazel cache for two years before causing a severe performance regression. Here's how a semaphore held across client-paced gRPC uploads and HTTP/2 flow control formed a circular deadlock, and how we fixed it.

Matteo Kamm — August 20, 2026

Introducing Bazel Remote Execution

Run multi-platform Bazel builds and tests on Namespace Bazel Remote Execution. Fan actions across remote workers, reuse cache hits across CI and local builds, and inspect every invocation from a UI or agent-ready report. Pay only for what you use with pay-as-you-go pricing and no charge for egress.

Matteo Kamm — August 19, 2026