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You know that serverless is orthogonal to unikernels, right? Serverless just means dynamically provisioning an instance in response to the load balancer seeing
by monocasa 3y ago
You know that serverless is orthogonal to unikernels, right? Serverless just means dynamically provisioning an instance in response to the load balancer seeing a request. There are no serverless runtimes I know of that don't run as relatively regular processes on a host kernel.
> Additionally, bare bones Linux kernel infrastructure for Xen and KVM support isn't UNIX.
> "Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?"
Xen and KVM aren't equivalent here.
KVM is ultimately an interface involving file descriptors, mmap(2), read(2), write(2), etc. IMO while not being UNIX™ it still very much embodies the UNIX spirit.