Reserving a machine before booting it
How account ownership, start reservations, and Cloudflare compute fit into Mainbrella’s container lifecycle.
Engineering blog
Notes on building and using agent compute, with links to the contracts and code behind it.
What a 100-machine burst measures
The limits of Mainbrella’s historical startup figures and how the HTTP benchmark records useful work and cleanup.
Retry creation without losing the machine
Why launch retries need a stable idempotency key and every later operation needs the exact container generation.
An interactive shell has a different lifetime
How Mainbrella’s browser terminal and SSH access bind to a running generation while respecting idle and hard deadlines.
A ready image is a starting point, not a saved workspace
How runtime selection and asynchronous image builds prepare Mainbrella workspaces without promising filesystem persistence.