Reduce cold start latency for serverless functions

[Smartdevs17]

Description

Serverless functions (Workers, Lambda) have high cold start latency. Optimize initialization code, dependency loading, and execution context reuse.

Acceptance Criteria

• Code splitting for serverless function handlers
• Lazy initialization of heavy dependencies
• Connection reuse across invocations
• Warm-up scheduling for critical endpoints
• Cold start time reduced to <100ms p95
• Monitoring dashboard for cold start frequency

Technical Scope

• workers/src/
• backend/src/index.ts
• infra/
• Edge: memory limits during initialization, concurrent warm-up requests

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