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Back in 2019, we started thinking about how allow Lambda customers to use container images to deploy their Lambda functions. In theory this is easy enough: a container image is an image of a filesystem, just like the zip files we already supported. The difficulty, as usual with big systems, was performance. Specific...

You may have heard of the "The One Billion Row Challenge" (1brc) and in case you don't, go checkout Gunnar Morlings's 1brc repo. I got sucked in because two of my colleagues have entered the competition and are on the leaderboard. PHP is not known for its speed, but as I am working on the PHP profiler I thought I gi...