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> being able to boot in ten ms means you can start a VM in the scope of a single request That is actually a good point. Though this is also achievable with Web
by MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
> being able to boot in ten ms means you can start a VM in the scope of a single request
That is actually a good point. Though this is also achievable with WebAssembly (see CloudFlare), but Unikernels could do it more generally I suppose.
On the other hand, AWS Lambda has yet to drive classic EC2 to extinction.
- throwaway894345 6y agoYeah, webassembly workers is an exciting idea as well. Unikernels is similar, but it removes a couple of layers of abstraction (another way to cut layers would be to implement a low-level hypervisor that runs WASM). As for lambda not driving EC2 to extinction, these are different technologies for different use cases, and lambda is a relatively new technology—it takes a long time for big companies to change their ways, and it rarely makes sense to port a stable, legacy EC2 code base to functions. There are still plenty of mainframes kicking around for the same reasons.