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Isn't it a feature of (some) unikernels, that you can fire one up to respond to some request, and tear it down, in milliseconds? If so, running an AWS Lambda-li
by hughw 11y ago
Isn't it a feature of (some) unikernels, that you can fire one up to respond to some request, and tear it down, in milliseconds? If so, running an AWS Lambda-like service with all the isolation you get in a HVM seems desirable for some situations. The isolation provided by a Docker container might not be good enough. It's a feature whose benefits, for some applications, might balance the debugging costs the article outlines.