kaldstart
Kaldstart is a theoretical approach in distributed systems engineering aimed at reducing cold-start latency for services and applications. It proposes a combination of predictive preloading, cache warming, and staged initializations to ensure rapid availability on first user requests.
The term kaldstart blends “cold start” with a stylized spelling of kald and was introduced in speculative
Kaldstart relies on three components: a traffic-forecasting model, a prewarm subsystem, and a shadow deployment mechanism.
Variations include full kaldstart, which prewarms a broad set of components, and partial kaldstart, which targets
In practice, kaldstart is discussed mainly in theoretical literature and early-stage experiments. Reported latency reductions in
See also: Cold start problem, Warm cache, Prewarming, Serverless computing.