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Re:IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead by baq on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:59AM (#21921009)
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

putting an app in a unikernel may be about as clever as possible for a great many software engineers.

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Re:IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead by nordsieck on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:13AM (#21921094)
> putting an app in a unikernel may be about as clever as possible for a great many software engineers.

I think the traditional argument is that, with a unikernel, you can cut out a lot of the traditional OS systems that you may not care about. In theory, this could reduce your overall system complexity.

This may not really be a difference in the future anyhow: with the success of BPF programs, it may be possible to get pretty close to a unikernel while still sticking with largely vanilla Linux.

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