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Boot times are pretty important for serverless environments. Alpine, which uses musl, is very popular in those situations.

• blueflow 2y ago
  I thought serverless environments are containers and thus don't need to boot?
  • amaccuish 2y ago
    They still have a userspace to bring up.
    • djbusby 2y ago
      And don't need systemd for that.
  • tuetuopay 2y ago
    nowadays serverless environments are microvms. that is, a standard machine type that is explicitly virtual (so device drivers have no wait time for hw to init). however, they don't either need userspace to boot because the function/application/whatever is likely init itself or not far off. so they need to boot, but only the kernel needs to boot.