Hi all:
To follow up on the emails from last weekend:
I got infatuated with unikernels last spring after reading one too
many of Anil/Thomas/Amir's, et. al's papers and the search started for
finding something that I could use immediately.
Finally ran into Antti and his labor of love. Being a very go focused
shop we immediately wanted to get go going despite it's obvious
architectural differences and begged (bribed) him into helping.
After playing around with them for awhile we realized that not just
the languages needed some support but tooling, testing and
infrastructure was needed for this brave new world.
Lots of people on this list have talked about running it on AWS/GCE
but even with the hacks it's still not a great fit cause it was meant
for a different world - everything from instance size to hourly billing
to security and everything else was just not a good fit.
So we've been building out some infrastructure for it and while we're
still not quite ready for production workloads we'd figure we'd go ahead
and show you all what we've been working on:
https://deferpanic.net
This is very much of a *beta* still so no gurantees against your cat
spontaneously exploding or your house going blackhole but it is our hope
that we can help push the ecosystem forward.
We'll be releasing some more tooling in the future as well as some of
it gets more consolidated.
- Ian
