Prebuilds vs Workspace Snapshots: Choosing a Startup-Latency Strategy for Team Workflows
Context Teams adopting Gitpod need to reduce workspace cold-start time for developers. Two documented features address this: Prebuilds, which run automatically on each push via CI and produce fresh environments, and Workspace Snapshots, which capture a running workspace's exact state on demand. Both shorten startup compared to building from scratch, but they