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Three steps to Compute Engine startup time bliss Google Cloud Performance Atlas By Colt McAnlis, Developer Advocate Scaling to millions of requests, with less headaches, is one of the joys of working on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Compute Engine, you can leverage technologies like Instance Groups and Load Balancing to make it even easier. However, there comes a point with VM-based applications where the time it takes to boot up your instance can be problematic if you�re also trying to scale to handle a usage spike. Before startup time causes woes in your application, let�s take a look at three simple steps to find what parts of bootup are taking the most time and how you can shorten your boot time. Where does the time go? One of the most important first steps to clearing up your startup time performance is to profile the official boot stages at a macro level. This gives you a sense of how long Compute Engine is taking to create your instance, vs. how much time your c...