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If someone builds a really easy way to slap a django app/rails app/node app "into" a unikernel, and an easy way to deploy that with perf gains over VM/Docker, y

by lbotos 8y ago

If someone builds a really easy way to slap a django app/rails app/node app "into" a unikernel, and an easy way to deploy that with perf gains over VM/Docker, you might get some ears. I think the hardest part is like you say, docker "works well enough" and the pressure isn't on to deliver the unikernel solution.

andrewstuart 8y ago
>> If someone builds a really easy way to slap a django app/rails app/node app "into" a unikernel I solved this in my research, but it's still not enough to get unikernels any real traction because containers have won the battle.
ingenieroariel 8y ago
If you change django/rails/node with golang/rust statically linked binary would you still get enough ears?
- lbotos 8y ago
  I don't think so. I think you of have to catch the people who haven't adopted docker yet, and the people who have "aging" codebases ("last gen"). Convince a few of them to convert, see good gains and "easier maintenance", get a groundswell, and go.
  - kitotik 8y ago
    Docker acquired unikernel.org awhile back, so another path to adoption could be for them to roll something useful out to users of the existing docker pipeline.
    - pjmlp 8y ago
      They added Mirage components on their macOS TCP/IP stack, but that was about it.
derefr 8y ago
You can slap a Phoenix app into an http://erlangonxen.org http://erlangonxen.org unikernel, and there are definite perf gains there.