My team at work now has a daily personal learning time called “egg time” — its a slightly silly story involving a manager who was good at taking some time to learn things each day, and an egg shaped chair.
Today I decided that I should read this paper about container image loading in AWS lambda, as recommended by Robert Collins on LinkedIn. The paper details the work they had to do to transition from all Lambda functions being packaged as relatively small zip files (250mb), to relatively large Docker containers (10gb+) while maintaining their aggressive target cold-start time of 50ms.
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