whacky and interesting indeed!
Wrote about how a warmed up container can be saved to disk and later restored for a 2.5x cold start performance boost. Saving live container processes to disk turns out to be pretty whacky and interesting!
modal.com/blog/mem-sna...
modal.com/blog/mem-sna...
Memory Snapshots: Checkpoint/Restore for Sub-second Startup
Serializing container state to disk for aggressive cold start optimization.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
whacky and interesting indeed!