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Overlay 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
by mrkurt 7y ago
Overlay 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...