We're actually putting a paper together that uses Jitsu so you might find that answers most of your questions (the team is busy with eval at the moment).
For the time-being, Jitsu [1] 'just' spawns a unikernel which serves requests, with no apparently latency for the requester. At some point, when the unikernel hasn't done anything for a while, it is culled (which is something of an implementation detail). In principle, we should be able to use this as part of a set of tools to create the hyper-elastic clouds mentioned upthread.
For the time-being, Jitsu [1] 'just' spawns a unikernel which serves requests, with no apparently latency for the requester. At some point, when the unikernel hasn't done anything for a while, it is culled (which is something of an implementation detail). In principle, we should be able to use this as part of a set of tools to create the hyper-elastic clouds mentioned upthread.
[1] Just in Time Summoning of Unikernels