Funny, i toyed with it a since some time and think about abandoning it. They just removed the most interesting feature which is scale to zero from the open source version.
faasd uses pausing of containers so there's barely a noticeable cold start unlike with Kubernetes where it can take a couple of seconds.
Up until 2018 everyone just used a min scale of 1, and was very happy because it meant never having to bear a Kubernetes Pod being scheduled. This is one of the reasons that faasd is quicker - no distributed state to manage.
Feel free to ask for help on Slack if you are unclear about scaling. I'm sure the community would be happy to help.
You may have been "toying" - many people do, but here's some examples of end users https://www.github.com/openfaas/faas/tree/master/ADOPTERS.md
faasd uses pausing of containers so there's barely a noticeable cold start unlike with Kubernetes where it can take a couple of seconds.
Up until 2018 everyone just used a min scale of 1, and was very happy because it meant never having to bear a Kubernetes Pod being scheduled. This is one of the reasons that faasd is quicker - no distributed state to manage.
Feel free to ask for help on Slack if you are unclear about scaling. I'm sure the community would be happy to help.