Cold Start Latency: First-Turn Optimization
Minimizing initialization lag in serverless agent environments.
Steps
- Pre-warm agent runtimes using 'Scheduled Pings'.
- Externalize large dependency loads into persistent layers.
- Implement 'Streaming-First' response architectures.
- Use edge-based runtime environments (e.g., Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers).
- Cache system prompt embeddings to skip redundant pre-processing.