A Deep Dive into AWS Firecracker

Written by kyle-jones | Published 2020/04/06
Tech Story Tags: aws | containers | serverless | architecture | cloud-computing | linux | aws-lambda | virtual-machine | web-monetization

TLDR Firecracker is a Virtual Machine Monitor written in Rust that Amazon Web Services use to power it’s Serverless Compute services — Lambda and Fargate. Each worker potentially offers thousands of MicroVMs, each providing a single function and a single process. Each slot supplies a pre-loaded execution environment for a function, including a minimized Linux kernel, userland and a shim control process. The invoke traffic gets delivered via the Invoke API, which authenticates requests, checks for authorization and then loads the function metadata.via the TL;DR App

no story

Written by kyle-jones | Welsh Vegan Senior Software Engineer
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/04/06