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I've been a bit interested in unikernels lately. I get the feeling they were pretty hyped a few years ago but never really took off. Can anyone give a brief sum
by anderspitman 4y ago
I've been a bit interested in unikernels lately. I get the feeling they were pretty hyped a few years ago but never really took off. Can anyone give a brief summary of the history and current state and/or point to some good materials?
- eyberg 4y agoMy own personal opinion is that a lot of the earlier projects were fixated on performance at all costs (even when the numbers didn't prove so - always run your own benchmarks) with the heavy downside that you would need to have custom compile/add patches for everything. That's a real non-starter for the vast majority of people out there. There are now at least 3 venture-backed commercial companies working on unikernels today (maybe more), ours being one.