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MAR 9, 2026Engineering

Loading container images lazily to shorten cold starts

MMira OkaforEngineering
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Loading container images lazily to shorten cold starts

Start before the pull ends

Most containers read under 10% of their image before serving the first request. We now start the container as soon as the index arrives and fetch file blocks on first read.

Trade-offs

The first request can be slower if it touches many cold files. A warm-up hook lets you list files to prefetch.

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