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I discovered it when looking into runtimes for my Bachelor's thesis. So far it's serving me quite well, especially after they reworked the Sentry file system ab
by lnsp 7y ago
I discovered it when looking into runtimes for my Bachelor's thesis. So far it's serving me quite well, especially after they reworked the Sentry file system abstraction (when I started file access was horribly slow). Networking works very well although they reimplemented it themselves. It also allows me to do base image layering using Overlay since I only keep binaries/source code/assets after a successful build.
- mrkurt 7y agoOverlay is a nice feature, we had to give that up with Firecracker. We pre-optimize filesystems instead, tgz them, and then cache them in various regions. Boot times are _insanely_ good, which we like, although a lot of apps (especially node apps) are slow to start.
- ignoramous 7y ago> ...which we like, although a lot of apps (especially node apps) are slow to start. Surprising since NodeJS routinely comes up as the fastest runtime in Lambda benchmarks, especially for cold-starts: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-lambda-cold-start-language-comparisons-2019-edition-%EF%B8%8F-1946d32a0244 https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-lambda-cold-start-langu...