> why do you need to spin up a VM only to tear it down compared to where you could just spin up a VM and use it when you really need to. Always there, always when
Firecracker has a much amaller overhead compared to regular VMs - which makes the (time and compute) costs of spinning up new VMs really low. This can be an advantage, depending on how chunky your workloads are - the less chunky they are - the more they can take advantage of finer-grained scaling.
Firecracker has a much amaller overhead compared to regular VMs - which makes the (time and compute) costs of spinning up new VMs really low. This can be an advantage, depending on how chunky your workloads are - the less chunky they are - the more they can take advantage of finer-grained scaling.