Sep 2, 2026
What Scale to Zero Cost Me to Build: 50s Sleeps, 14s Wakes
Hibernate took 50 seconds. Wake took 14, not the 1.3 I had reported. The measured price of building scale to zero on a Firecracker fleet, and every fix.
9 minSep 2, 2026I Measured Every Stage of My 179ms Firecracker Boot Path
Where every millisecond of a Firecracker create goes, measured on my own production fleet, plus why I refuse to stop the clock before the guest answers.
9 minSep 2, 2026My Fork Docs Were Wrong: What VM Forking Really Preserves
I shipped a doc claiming forks keep processes and open files. A smoke test proved otherwise. Three fork paths measured, and the five places each breaks.
10 minSep 2, 2026Checkpoint Restore Implementation: What It Cost Me to Build
Analysts call checkpoint/restore table stakes by 2027. Here is the real bill: snapshot storage, userfaultfd lazy restore, and a 50s hibernate vs 1.2s wake.
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