Lightning Talk: Millisecond Scale-to-Zero and the Quest to Never Pay for Idle Again
summary
Claims millisecond end-to-end scale-to-zero for real apps using the Linux Foundation Unikraft project and a craft CLI that builds unikernels from Dockerfiles, packages them as OCI images and runs them on a Unikraft Cloud platform. Live demo shows nginx and Next.js cold boot times around 7–8 ms wake ups, full request processing ~60–70 ms, and a stress screenshot of 10,000 instances on one server. Proven with cold start standard apps in milliseconds, scale them to 0 within milliseconds, wake them up within an Internet RTT.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:21Cloud is inefficient
- 0:56The problem with ScaletoZero
- 1:59Autoscaling
- 2:54Cold starts
- 3:39Cloud stack
- 5:03Unic kernel
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