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by amirmc 11y ago
What FUD? There appears to be more FUD in your comment than I've seen from any of the unikernel projects. Most of the claims you've made seem to be coming from the existing paradigm of how people write code for the cloud. If you&#
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by amirmc 11y ago
I don't think anyone on the MirageOS team is a language zealot. Almost by definition, they'll be polyglots so understand the trade-offs you make when using different languages. It turns out that OCaml is pretty good for systems pr
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by amirmc 11y ago
History is always written by the victors. What does the western world think of colonisation, wars etc?
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CueKeeper: Gitting Things Done in the Browser(roscidus.com)
5 points by amirmc 11y ago|1 comments
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by amirmc 11y ago
It's still early days for most people to make deep comparisons. I'd say the best thing is to actually try a few of them out. MirageOS has tutorials and I'm sure some of the others do too. I doubt enough people (outside the te
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by amirmc 11y ago
Folks interested in this should also check out MirageOS ( http://openmirage.org -- I'm a contributor). There's also a good series of unikernel articles that give more background. http://www.linux.com/new
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by amirmc 11y ago
> "You don't need to stick ads IN the app to monetise it." Exactly. I'm always surprised when people think it's the ads themselves that matter. It's the behavioural data and profiling that's valua
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by amirmc 12y ago
How far should we take that maxim? It implies that no one should ever attempt this, but that leads to nothing new (unless you are first recognised as a crypto guru -- but how could you become one?). I think it's worth drawing a disti
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The hidden dangers of donor intent (on perpetual foundations)(philanthropydaily.com)
2 points by amirmc 12y ago|0 comments
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I think the GP was pointing out that it was effective . Sometimes validity (or even reasonableness) has nothing to do with it (cf. influence of special interest groups in politics).
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They were not ideas. They were working versions. At some point you have to put your ideas/implementation/whatever out into the open (you might even have to advertise its existence). At that point, anyone better resourced than
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I find your comment quite odd. It's like saying people don't need email anymore -- which is ridiculous. So as long as people are using email , there will be the need for groups of them to coordinate over email. Mailing lists are
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You describe those options as though they are at opposite ends of the same spectrum. I'd say they're somewhat orthogonal.
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Be careful what you mean by 'mostly'. Though there may be many small outfits that use it for this particular features, there are others that use it very differently (and at completely different scales). Examples such as Facebook,
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by amirmc 12y ago
Given what you've described, I think you might be interested to look further at Irmin [1]. It's not quite ready for prime-time but certainly stable enough to kick the tires. Regarding commercial uptake, the nice thing about the li
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Towards Heroku for Unikernels: Part 2 – Self Scaling Systems(amirchaudhry.com)
24 points by amirmc 12y ago|8 comments
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One Secure OS for the Cloud – The Rise of Unikernels(devops.com)
2 points by amirmc 12y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 12y ago
Documentation often gets cited as the main 'semi-techncal' thing to do for an open-source project. However, I disagree with the point that moribund projects could be revitalised this way. If the people writing the code have littl
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by amirmc 12y ago
What about all the over-hyping that goes on? Or outright false/misleading advertising? Sometimes you only find out you're an 'early adopter' when the product's in your hands.
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Even early adopters expect the products they use to do the thing advertised. I don't believe there are many paying customers who'd be happy with, say, a lighting system that only works half the time. The main difference from my
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "Is there a need for someone like me in any open source projects and if so, how do I contribute?" This is an excellent question. I doubt that anyone is going to turn you away but there are some things you should probably
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by amirmc 12y ago
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the Unikernel vs Docker natrative but it feels inevitable given how the Docker crowd claimed the 'death of the hypervisor' in their early days. These two tools could probably play quite nice
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Towards Heroku for Unikernels: Part 1 – Automated Deployment(amirchaudhry.com)
29 points by amirmc 12y ago|1 comments
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And a share of gross revenue, at that. I'm sure all these definitions are written in the studio's favour. Apparently, Stan Lee never got anything for his creations either (and Spiderman grossed $800M+). https://en.wikip
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "But in any real Xen deployment I'm aware of, Linux is running in dom0 anyway." It's still separated from the the domUs via the hypervisor. So an exploit in one place isn't easy to escalate into a breach of
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by amirmc 12y ago
Edit: the comment I replied to has been deleted. It referred to legacy code and linked to OSv. I'll leave this comment here anyway. ----- The nice thing with multiple Unikernel approaches is that you get to choose your trade-offs. Mira
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by amirmc 12y ago
So with a whole bunch of additional optimisations (not out-of-the-box) you can get an order of magnitude improvement. Unikernels are at least another two orders of magnitude faster than that (~300ms), without any optimisations. Upcoming
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by amirmc 12y ago
The projects themselves have progressed since this article and MirageOS is doing pretty well [1]. There was also a recent HN discussion on an experiment to create (and run) one VM per URL, which was built via MirageOS [2]. Although there ar
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "I don't think there are many companies who have the depth of info security knowledge that Github can draw upon." I recall at least two vulnerabilities that GitHub was exposed to. The mass-assignment one from Rails (wh
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by amirmc 12y ago
A large part of your blog post seems to be premised on the difference between incoming cash and outgoing cash. That only works as long as the people you're paying will accept net-30 (or have it imposed on them) -- Amazon was a great ex

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