I’m really excited that interest seems to be piqued around unikernels again, I think they’re a really cool technology and I love the idea of an OS as a library.
The first generation a few years ago seemed to kind of fizzle, and I think people didn’t want to write appliances when they felt they had perfectly good applications already. This round seems more about providing unikernels that provide a complete set of linux syscalls (allowing applications to run unmodified), but I hope if it does take off the door will be open to smaller, more specialised library OSs again.
Yeah, me too! Hopefully the collective revolt against deep complexity will yield more manageable, specialized tools. It seems like this is a good opportunity for people to understand “everything” (okay… more) that they are running. Plus, it has security and performance benefits.
I’m really excited that interest seems to be piqued around unikernels again, I think they’re a really cool technology and I love the idea of an OS as a library.
The first generation a few years ago seemed to kind of fizzle, and I think people didn’t want to write appliances when they felt they had perfectly good applications already. This round seems more about providing unikernels that provide a complete set of linux syscalls (allowing applications to run unmodified), but I hope if it does take off the door will be open to smaller, more specialised library OSs again.
Yeah, me too! Hopefully the collective revolt against deep complexity will yield more manageable, specialized tools. It seems like this is a good opportunity for people to understand “everything” (okay… more) that they are running. Plus, it has security and performance benefits.
Warning: The audio gets kind of rough in the second half of the talk, but it is really interesting nonetheless.