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Hey there, fn dev here. Cool to hear about folks testing the graal images! We have done some experimental work and made some discoveries in the container cold start time dept. which we've documented https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/building-a-container-run... (see: Fast Container Startup). The main things are optimizations around pre-allocating network namespaces, we've built some experimental code to skirt around this https://github.com/fnproject/fn/blob/master/api/agent/driver... (which can be configured & tested) and we're testing approaches like this to attempt to get start times down to as low as we can. <100ms still seems like a lofty goal at this point, but this is becoming a pain point for various FaaS platforms that are container based and some optimization work should come out of all this. A few layers up, it's a little easie

Hey ianamartin, Thanks for the interest in Fn! And all great points.. A few comments on your bullets: Re: the point of serverless, there's more to the "magic attraction" than just an endpoint -- event-driven architectures are pretty common and can be triggered from all sorts of different patterns (iaas state changes, queues, data sources, etc). But you're right, eventually we ask more from our tech stack and we've got to evolve to make it more useful. We're thinking about this a bit with Fn Flow[1] -- how to build more complex serverless apps using future-like code. Re: registries, thanks for the feedback. We're trying to make this a better experience and have some conversations going already to address[2]. Would love to chat -- hit us up in Slack[3] or tickets[4]. [1] https://github.com/fnproject/flow [2] http://slack.fnproject.io [3] ht