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Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires.
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Nitric allows developers to build serverless functions that run on various compute services from multiple cloud vendors. One of the most commonly used is AWS Lambda. One of AWS Lambda's strengths - dynamic scaling - can also be a challenging drawback due to a phenomenon known as Cold Starts.
This appears to be caused by lazy loading of image layer data, particularly during container initialization, and latency introduced by the read operations. In general, you want to access as few files and as little data as possible during the initialization of your functions. For example, we've seen improvement when using ncc to bundle Node.js applications.
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