Firecracker for Students: Launch Your First MicroVM on Any OS
Maxine Sofia Llamas2025-08-22T11:50:14+00:00What if you could launch your own virtual machine in less than a second... right from your laptop without Docker, without the cloud, and without frying your CPU? So you’ve heard of virtual machines, but what if I told you there’s one that starts in milliseconds and barely uses resources? Meet Firecracker, the same tech AWS uses to power Lambda and Fargate. But guess what? You don’t need to work at AWS to use it. It’s small, it’s fast, and you can run it right now without a cloud account. In this guide, I’ll show you how to run your [...]