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Why don't you read http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/08/17/jitsu-v02/ http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/08/17/jitsu-v02/ and decide for yourself? The gist of
by agentultra 11y ago
Why don't you read http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/08/17/jitsu-v02/ http://www.skjegstad.com/blog/2015/08/17/jitsu-v02/ and decide for yourself?
The gist of it is that for a typical DNS server you can boot a unikernel per-request to service the query instead of leaving a long-running process going on a typical server. You can boot these things fast enough to even map them to URLs and create a unikernel to serve each page of your site.
It's hard to approach it from the perspective of what you already know to be true and reliable. It's still experimental and we've only begun to explore the possibilities.
- temac 11y agoHonestly to my untrained eyes, it stills looks like a weird operating system except more complicated, all of that to implement features you could have implemented more simply with a less crazy architecture that does not involve launching a program as if it was the complete system of a standalone computer. Now I'm not saying that it is bad to experiment, but if you don't come up beforehand with actual things to test that were not possible on current modern systems or at least substantially more difficult to do instead of quite the opposite, it's not a very useful experiment but just a curious contraption.