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mikepurvis
on July 17, 2014
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IBM announces $3B research initiative
The most interesting piece of this puzzle to me is initiatives like MirageOS, which let you run your application very close to the metal—you give up a lot of convenience when you dump the traditional OS, but you give up a lot of inefficiency, too.
wmf
on July 17, 2014
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Or you could keep the convenience while dumping the overhead by using Docker. As a bonus you also get to be cool.
mikepurvis
on July 18, 2014
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Docker is still a full Linux kernel. The point of MirageOS is that your app
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eru
on July 21, 2014
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For MirageOS, Xen is the kernel.
But Xen is smaller than Linux.
mikepurvis
on July 22, 2014
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My impression is that typical docker deployments have them sitting on VMs anyway— so it's the worst of both worlds in that scenario.
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