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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by nautilus12 on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:34PM (#16020326)
I think they did it this way deliberately as a kind of proof of concept.
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Re:Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms by MBCook on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @11:49PM (#16020378)
That makes sense, but even if everything else takes three seconds (that’s overwhelming the small VM book time) I’m not sure what the real benefit of this is.

I’m sure it’s technically more secure than a sandboxed application running in its own VM in its own process but by how much?

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