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# Welcome

## What is Velocity

You can think of Velocity as a self-hosted version of AWS lambda. Just kidding, Velocity allows you to run short-lived JavaScript code in Firecracker Micro VMs just like AWS lambda does, but is nowhere near the scale of Lambda and its just a hobby project I'm building in my spare time. \
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Lets take a look at some of the components of Velocity and how you can deploy it on your own Infrastructure so you can start running code!