# 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

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# 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

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# 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

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# 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

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# 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

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# 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

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# 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