I am looking to assign a static IP to my Lambda which is being invoked via the API gateway. This is required because, the downstream system that i invoke from this lambda accepts web requests only ...

I recently tried to analyze some performance issues on a service hosted in AWS Lambda. Breaking down the issue, I realized that it was only on the first calls on each container. When isolating the ...

As we all know, many Android apps display a white screen very briefly before their first Activity comes into focus. This problem is observed in the following cases: Android apps that extend the g...

Firebase has announced in September 2021 that it is possible now to configure its cloud function autoscaling in a way, so that a certain number of instances will always be running (https://firebase...

I was trying to figure out how I could optimize cold start times for my firebase functions. After reading this article, I wanted to try it out but I realized that the article specifically targets t...

I'm trying to test my lambda functions locally using the SAM local CLI. I start the API with this command: sam local start-api --template ./sam-template.yml --host 0.0.0.0 --port 4001 However, eve...

In the latest update for Android studio, the emulator has started saving snapshots of the current state of the device by default and going back to that snapshot when reopened, which is not the beha...

Is there a clear way to identify "cold starts", either in runtime in the Lambda itself, or via the logs? I know that cold starts are characterized by longer runtimes, which I can actually...

On my project there is REST API which implemented on AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda. As AWS Lambda functions are serverless and stateless while we make a call to it, AWS starts a container with cod...

I remember one of the strong points of lightfm is that the model does not suffer from cold start problem, both user and item cold start: lightfm original paper However, I still don't understand h...

I am curious what are the methods / approaches to overcome the "cold start" problem where when a new user or an item enters the system, due to lack of info about this new entity, making recommendat...

When app being launched, how to determine it is cold start or not? By cold start, I mean the app launched from the very beginning, instead of just resumed from a previous state. :Edit: elaborate m...

The following code (by Vitaliy Liptchinsky) goes through all types in an assembly and calls PrepareMethod on all methods. Would this improve cold-start delays? Thread jitter = new Thread(() =>...