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droelfyesterday at 6:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've been using unikraft (https://unikraft.org/) unikernels for a while and the startup times are quite impressive (easily sub-second for our Rust application).


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aheppyesterday at 6:34 PM

What drove you to choose that over something like containers?

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ATechGuyyesterday at 8:37 PM

Fast boot up means nothing if your agent/app is slow at runtime (due to virtualization tax or QEMU emulation). Fast boot up is a PR term, which can easily be optimized for compared to designed a better virtualization layer that performs near-bare-metal.

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