The advantage of a unikernel work cycle is many-fold. You get performance benefits from not having a memory management unit or Kernel/User boundary and the attack surface is greatly minimized as all system dependencies are compiled with your application logic. Don’t use a file-system in your application? Leave it out. The philosophy here is keep it simple and use what you need. These unikernels are also the secret sauce for how Docker Beta natively works on Windows and MacOSX.
I’m specifically focusing on hacking on the Mirage implementation of Syslog which was started by Jochen Bartl (verbosemode, lobo on IRC) who is an all around awesome guy to work with. This is Jochen’s first big OCaml project (mine too) and has already proven how capable and passionate he is by leading the charge.
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