Glossary

The words, without the shrug

Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.

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Cold start

Infrastructure

The delay when no instance is running yet.

When a serverless function has no live instance, one must be created before your code runs. That startup delay is the price of paying nothing while idle, and it lands on whichever unlucky visitor arrives first.