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Re: Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems

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> there's little need to SSH into the system in the first place (except for debugging purposes). Pretty big except though. This concept has been done multiple times and has always failed. It's solving a problem that few care about.

I haven’t SSH’d into a machine/container to debug or fix a production issue in years. You flat out can’t even SSH into anything on the last few prod setups I’ve worked on: permissions prevent it, and most containers have sshd and friends stripped out. I would love a super slimmed down stack to run workloads on. Most of the time when I run workloads, I want to run the workload and nothing else. The OS in the container…

What schedules your threads?

Re: Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems

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post #63

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But what's the benefit of cutting out the full-blown operating system? It's rare that such things would be the bottleneck.

At least for cloud deployments you don't need a full blown OS when all you want to do is run apps like NGINX or Redis. If you use a unikernel instead, then you severely (orders of magnitude) reduce cold boot times, memory consumption, server density (thousands on hw-isolated instances on a single server) and TCB.

Makes sense. Thank you.
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