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This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
I'm shocked that the top two HN comments as of writing are bikeshedding the submission's web design.
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Here is another one for your list: https://boxfuse.com We launched Boxfuse last month with support for running JVM apps as unikernels on VirtualBox and AWS. Here is a blog article from last week about deploying Dropwizard unikernels to EC2: https://boxfuse.com/blog/dropwizard-aws.html Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
It is not a unikernel though, just a minimal Linux.
In a sense it follows the same principle as OSv, just with a proven Linux kernel instead of a custom one.
Update: Why the downvote? If you disagree, feel free to say why.
Unikernels are cool to play with. Erlang is cool too. But... - [name] is a kernel thread not a user space process. - its libssl, not "libopenss" - installing rpc, some obscure 55k listening port, and calling it bloated.. heh so cheap. Once past all this FUD - what does a unikernel (basically the same as running linux and your app as /sbin/init except it's in Erlang and not C here)? - its obscure. you get security mai…
Unikernels are cool to play with. Erlang is cool too. But... - [name] is a kernel thread not a user space process. - its libssl, not "libopenss" - installing rpc, some obscure 55k listening port, and calling it bloated.. heh so cheap. Once past all this FUD - what does a unikernel (basically the same as running linux and your app as /sbin/init except it's in Erlang and not C here)? - its obscure. you get security mai…
> with zero separation between them the hypervisor separates unikernels from each-other.
If you work on an unikernel how do you store data to disk? There is no filesystem, right?
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It is not a unikernel though, just a minimal Linux.
Boxfuse falls squarely into the "generalized" unikernel type mentioned in the presentation. You are only thinking of the "specialized" ones. In a sense it follows the same principle as OSv, just with a proven Linux kernel instead of a custom one. Update: Why the downvote? If you disagree, feel free to say why.
I have to say, this is one of the most exciting technologies I've seen in awhile. It predates docker by a fair bit, and I would have hoped it would have gotten more traction. So I'm very happy to see slides from a user group. Alas, the brilliance of Erlang has not been sufficiently appreciated, so hopefully Elixir -- aka: Erlang Returns -- might catch on and become a popular hipster language. With Docker you still ha…