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Re:How We Run Firecracker VMs Inside EC2 and Start Browsers ... by swazzy on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:33PM (#48575610)
> During a burst in traffic, the system, instead of reacting on its own, required humans to adjust it.

Isn't this solvable with autoscaling? how is this not an issue with Firecracker as well?

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Re:How We Run Firecracker VMs Inside EC2 and Start Browsers ... by Reformedot on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:50PM (#48576698)
Our previous solution (Unikraft) did not supported auto-scaling

That's why we moved to a fully in-house solution with Firecracker and auto-scaling on EC2

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