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We made a cold start take 164 milliseconds

Vercel Fluid works to avoid the cold start — pre-warming and sharing instances so you rarely hit one. We took the other path: scale fully to zero — the sandbox is deleted — then thaw a frozen microVM in the time it takes to read this sentence.

Introducing Thaw — sub-second cold restore · PandaStack

A frozen microVM, thawed in ~164ms. True scale-to-zero ($0 idle) and a sub-second cold restore — and the engineering behind it.

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