Tag
cold-start
- Oct 20, 2025 Serverless Execution and the Per-Event Invocation Model When the unit of deployment is a single event handler, lifecycle, concurrency, and retries stop being operational details and become the architecture. What the invocation model gives and what it takes away. software architecture
- Sep 17, 2025 Cold Start Anatomy: What Happens Between a Request and the First Instruction The stages a function invocation passes through before user code runs, which stages dominate the delay, and why warm pools change the shape of the curve. cloud infrastructure
- Jun 16, 2025 Process Launch: From Launcher Tap to First Instruction How a tap on an icon becomes a running process, why mobile systems fork from a preloaded template instead of spawning fresh, and where a cold start spends its time. mobile computing
- May 13, 2025 Cold Start Phases and Where Launch Time Is Spent The stages an app passes through between a tap and its first frame, which stages scale with code size, and why the reported launch time depends on where the clock starts. mobile computing
- Apr 20, 2025 Autoscaling a Token Service with Cold Starts and Diurnal Load Why reactive scaling fails for inference replicas, how to derive the lead time a scale-out needs, and what a warm pool costs against the peaks it covers. inference systems
- Mar 30, 2023 Cold Start After a Full Outage: Recovery Order and the Thundering Herd Why restarting a whole system at once produces failures that no individual component has, how dependency order and admission shape recovery, and where warmup ends. distributed systems