firecracker-microvm/firecracker
- Total stars
- 37,313
- Today
- +18since 00:18 UTC
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About the project
Firecracker is a Rust-based VMM that uses KVM to run lightweight microVMs with minimal overhead and hardware-level isolation. It is designed for secure multi-tenant execution of container and serverless workloads.
Useful for
- Boot a microVM with a given kernel and rootfs via the Firecracker API
- Configure rate limiters for virtio devices to cap microVM bandwidth
- Isolate production workloads using the Jailer and seccomp filters
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 12, 2026, 11:12 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 00:18–11:03: 37295 → 37313 stars (+18). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +34 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 30 · October 8, 2026. Days with data: 10.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 12, 2026, 11:12 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 37,313
- Today
- +18 stars measured 2026-10-12, 00:18–11:03 UTC, ≈ 34 by evening
- Forks
- 2,669
- Issues and pull requests
- 6,155
- Watchers
- 363
- Language
- Rust
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v1.17.0 · September 10, 2026
- Created
- October 19, 2017
- Last push
- October 9, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 2, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #15, +28 stars
- October 1, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #14, +31 stars
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +19 stars
- September 15, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +20 stars
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