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That was/is part of the promise of the whole unikernel thing, no? https://mirage.io/ https://mirage.io/ or similar could then let you boot your database. That
by girvo 3y ago
That was/is part of the promise of the whole unikernel thing, no?
https://mirage.io/ https://mirage.io/ or similar could then let you boot your database. That said, it's not really taken off from what I can tell, so I'm guessing there's more to it than that.
- anarazel 3y agoImo unikernels are a complicated solution in search of a problem, which turns out to not exist. There certainly are times OSs get in the way. But it's hard enough to write a good database, we don't need to maintain a third of an OS in addition.
- girvo 3y agoYeah indeed, that was my feeling on it as well. As much as Linux et al might get in ones way at times, what we get for free by relying on them is too useful to ignore for most tasks I think. That said, perhaps at AWS or Google scale that would be different? I wonder if they've looked at this stuff internally.