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Unikernels are interesting, but as long as people treat them like "linux without linux" they won't go far. The real potential of unikernels comes from making a
by phendrenad2 5y ago
Unikernels are interesting, but as long as people treat them like "linux without linux" they won't go far.
The real potential of unikernels comes from making apps that are more self-aware and take up some of the functions previously handled by linux (such as monitoring memory usage).
- nderjung 5y agoIt works both ways with Unikraft, either bring an existing application and let it run with the added performance/security (and think it's on Linux) or write your application with our performance-oriented APIs[0][1]. [0]: https://unikraft.org/docs/concepts/architecture/ https://unikraft.org/docs/concepts/architecture/ [1]: https://usoc21.unikraft.org/docs/sessions/10-high-performance/#overview https://usoc21.unikraft.org/docs/sessions/10-high-performanc...