In the context of Kubernetes I can see how startup time matters. For instance auto-scaling up the number of replicas in response to load. The other one I can th

In the context of Kubernetes I can see how startup time matters. For instance auto-scaling up the number of replicas in response to load. The other one I can think of is serverless frameworks such as Knative where you might be using a scale-from-zero model where you are spinning up a service on demand.