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by nextaccountic 1130 days ago
Isn't fast startup the point of firecracker? It's supposed to scale down to zero when there are no users, and quickly ramp up when needed.
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I mean... sorta? Yes, it is the point. But, the goal is to make it so that you can do this scale up/down at the VM level. We have been able to do this at a thread or even process level for a long long time, at this point.