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Stop Starting, Start Resuming: Quickly starting dockers
Cold starting docker containers is expensive. Before a Dockerized application does anything useful, it pulls images, initializes the runtime, loads classes or modules, allocates memory, opens files and sockets, and slowly warms into a steady operating state. In modern infrastructure, this cost shows up everywhere: pod restarts, scale-outs, rollouts, autoscaling events. Each time, the same warm-up work is paid for again. Capture and restore offers a different idea: instead of

Ojas Natu
Jan 272 min read
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