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How are you liking gVisor? We started with Firecracker and only spent a little time with gVisor, but it seems really nice.



I discovered it when looking into runtimes for my Bachelor's thesis. So far it's serving me quite well, especially after they reworked the Sentry file system abstraction (when I started file access was horribly slow). Networking works very well although they reimplemented it themselves. It also allows me to do base image layering using Overlay since I only keep binaries/source code/assets after a successful build.


Overlay is a nice feature, we had to give that up with Firecracker. We pre-optimize filesystems instead, tgz them, and then cache them in various regions. Boot times are _insanely_ good, which we like, although a lot of apps (especially node apps) are slow to start.


> ...which we like, although a lot of apps (especially node apps) are slow to start.

Surprising since NodeJS routinely comes up as the fastest runtime in Lambda benchmarks, especially for cold-starts: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-lambda-cold-start-langu...




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