# What Firecracker open-source means for the serverless community

DevFeed: [What Firecracker open-source means for the serverless community](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-firecracker-open-source-means-for-the-serverless-community-14185.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.serverless.com/blog/firecracker-what-means-serverless>)

Author: Jared Short

Published: 2018-11-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Serverless Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/serverless-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firecracker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firecracker.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [cloud-computing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-computing.md>), [faas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/faas.md>), [firecracker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firecracker.md>), [function-as-a-service](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/function-as-a-service.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/insights.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [serverless-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-architecture.md>), [serverless-framework](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless-framework.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses AWS open-sourcing Firecracker, the core technology behind Lambda and Fargate, and considers what this means for the serverless community.

## Source excerpt

AWS open-sourced Firecracker, the Lambda and Fargate core. Here's what it means for the serverless community.