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Mashines.dev – Live-migrate microVMs between hosts without restarting

Mashines.dev – Live-migrate microVMs between hosts without restarting

by ktaraszk·Jun 3, 2026·6 points·2 comments

AI Analysis

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Live VM migration preserving open TCP connections—Fly.io and Render can't do this.

Strengths
  • True live migration with open TCP connections preserved—process never knows it moved
  • Hardware-virtualized microVMs (KVM/Cloud Hypervisor) enable safe multi-tenant untrusted code
  • Per-second billing with scale-to-zero while keeping durable volumes attached across migrations
Weaknesses
  • Waitlist-only—no live product to verify the zero-downtime migration claims yet
  • MicroVM overhead may not suit all workloads compared to container-based alternatives
Target Audience

Backend developers running stateful services, AI agents, and long-running workloads

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Fly.io · Render · Railway

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