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jedberg • today at 8:18 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Lambda is built for the generic case. Amazon was kind enough to open source firecracker, which is what they built Lambda on. If you want to run workloads that are more specific than what Lambda supports, it's pretty straightforward to use firecracker to build your own optimized Lambda.


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seanw265 • today at 8:47 PM

Yes, that's exactly what we did.

https://www.easel.sh runs on it.

otterley • today at 8:25 PM

> it's pretty straightforward to use firecracker to build your own optimized Lambda

I take it, then, that you've successfully accomplished this yourself in production?

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