Full Stack Journey 043: Lighting Up The Firecracker Project For Serverless Computing

Is it a container, or is it a VM? Michael Hausenblas of AWS joins Scott to talk about Firecracker, an open-source project launched by AWS and leveraged by a number of their commercial services. Firecracker creates micro-VMs that start up quickly and have a minimal footprint. Serverless computing is a key use case for the software.
Along the way, Scott and Michael also touch on things like EKS, Fargate, and Lambda, and how Firecracker was built to support those types of services at AWS.
Questions include:

* What is Firecracker?
* Firecracker and serverless computing
* Why Firecracker, instead of other options for adding hypervisor isolation to containers?
* How one consumes Firecracker

If you’re evaluating serverless technologies, you’ll probably find this discussion useful!
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Show Notes
Michael Hausenblas (@mhausenblas) on Twitter
Firecracker on GitHub
Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications
NSDI presentation on Firecracker
How AWS Firecracker works: a deep dive
RustVMM FOSDEM presentation
Ignite and Firekube