Where Serverless Cold Start Time Actually Goes

Everyone blames the platform. Most of a cold start is usually your own initialisation code, and you can measure exactly which part.

Where Serverless Cold Start Time Actually Goes. Abstract performance illustration in orange and dark grey on debugly.dev
Phase Typical Who owns it
Sandbox provisioning 50 to 200ms Platform
Runtime bootstrap 20 to 100ms Platform
Your code loading, imports 100ms to 3s You
Your init code, connections 50ms to 2s You

Published on debugly.dev by Rohit Bhadani | Founder of Krova Cloud