[blasdel]

There's a Github Pages FAQ describing why it was made and how it fits with other solutions: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

and a high-level design document about how it works https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

[espeed]

Interesting name choice. When I clicked on the link and saw the name and design, my first thought was, "Is this a Firebase knockoff...?" [1] ... and then I scrolled to the bottom to see the copyright and saw this project is by Amazon Web Services.

[1] https://firebase.google.com