Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
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HN comment orderFirecracker is great We use it to run fleets of fast booting vms at https://fly.io. It’s really the best OSS to come out of Amazon.
I bookmarked this about firecracker's internals in HN in the past https://www.talhoffman.com/2021/07/18/firecracker-internals/
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18539532
firecracker would be nice if it weren't an aws tool focused solely on performance in their particular environment. support for qemu (non kvm) would allow to use it as a safety sandbox on random processes like qubes but lighter.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 622
- Total comments
- 166
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-27 | Firecracker | leef | 5 | 1 |
| 2018-11-27 | AWS open sources FireCracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing | pritambarhate | 3 | 1 |
| 2018-11-28 | Firecracker | BerislavLopac | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-11-29 | Firecracker | godelmachine | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-03-07 | Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computingFirst breakout · Best thread | based2 | 425 | 103 |
| 2021-10-17 | Firecracker MicroVMsLatest 20+ point return | colinprince | 176 | 60 |
| 2023-05-01 | Firecracker – Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing | doodlesdev | 3 | 1 |
| 2024-02-18 | Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing | udev4096 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-04-08 | Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing | hunvreus | 5 | 0 |