Taming cold starts at the edge

Cold-start latency has quietly become one of the most important numbers in modern infrastructure. As more workloads scale to zero between bursts of traffic, the time it takes to wake back up directly shapes how your app feels.

The cost of a cold start

A multi-second cold start on a checkout endpoint is a lost sale. The traditional fix — keeping warm instances running around the clock — means paying for idle capacity just in case. There is a better trade-off.

How we keep starts warm and bills low

LaunchPad runs your code on a lightweight isolate runtime at the edge, so the “cold” path is measured in milliseconds, not seconds. Combined with predictive pre-warming based on your real traffic patterns, you get the responsiveness of always-on without the always-on invoice. You only pay for the requests you actually serve.