Comprehensive Analysis of Firebase Functions Cold Starts

Cold starts represent one of the most significant challenges when working with serverless architectures like Firebase Functions. These latency spikes occur when the cloud platform needs to instantiate a new runtime environment to handle an incoming request. Unlike warm instances that are already initialized and ready to process requests, cold starts require the complete setup …

Apr 16, 2025 - 08:16

Cold starts represent one of the most significant challenges when working with serverless architectures like Firebase Functions. These latency spikes occur when the cloud platform needs to instantiate a new runtime environment to handle an incoming request. Unlike warm instances that are already initialized and ready to process requests, cold starts require the complete setup …