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by watermelon0 1688 days ago
Caching is just part of it, to ensure faster download on nearby nodes, the revolutionary thing is that even 100 GB image can be started in a few seconds, and files streamed when accessed.

It's not a new idea, I remember at least one project from a few years ago, which used a modified Docker engine to download accessed files on-the-fly, but this is the first time a cloud provider offers it.