HOW WE SAVED 300MS FROM EVERY AWS POD STARTUP WITH A SINGLE GRAFANA LOKI QUERY

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Checkly, a synthetic monitoring tool, reduced its pod startup time by optimizing the AWS SDK and changing the order of operations. It initially used large containers with long startup times, but switching to ephemeral pods required a faster startup. The company found that multiple versions of the AWS SDK were causing delays. Standardizing the version led to a bunch of savings in compute costs.