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SOC2-I Compliance: An Intense but Extremely Valuable Journey
At Unikraft, we recently completed our SOC2 Type 1 audit. What we thought would be a process of improving security turned into a much more valuable journey about company maturity.
The Idle (and Over-provisioned) Cloud
We generally like to think of the cloud handling gazillion requests per second, but a significant part of it is over-provisioned and so idle. In this post we look into the what, how and why what we term “The Idle Cloud” exists, and how to fix it.
The Cloud Engineer's Dilemma (Part 2)
Cold starts, slow autoscale, subpar scale to zero, severe over-provisioning and exploding bills. Must the cloud really be this complex? Part 2 of a two-part series.
The Cloud Engineer's Dilemma (Part 1)
Cold starts, slow autoscale, subpar scale-to-zero, severe over-provisioning and exploding bills. Must the cloud really be this complex? Part 1 of a two-part series.
articleHeavy App and Bad Cold Starts? Just Snapshot it!
Read moreIn the cloud, the heavier the app the slower the start right? In this post we look at the problem and show how with Unikraft Cloud we regularly cold start heavy apps in only 10s of milliseconds
articleUnikraft Cloud recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor
Read moreInnovative Serverless Cloud Platform Lauded for Speed, Scalability, and Flexibility
articleTrue Serverless with Unikraft Cloud
Read moreBased on years of research, we’re introducing Unikraft Cloud, the only true serverless platform where you can deploy apps and containers without any infra headaches.
articleHigh Server Density in the Cloud Should be the Norm, not a Pipedream
Read moreIn the cloud, running only 10-100 instances/virtual machines per server is commonplace practice. In this post we explore why, and show that with a novel cloud stack designed from first principles it’s possible to increase these numbers by orders of magnitude (thousands on a single server).
articleServerless is a Broken Promise - Time to Fix it!
Read moreCurrent serverless offerings come with a substantial litany of complex, frustrating and expensive issues that together constitute a far cry from the promise of serverless. In this post we look into why that is, what serverless should be, and how to get there.
articleMillisecond Autoscale for Apps: a Pipedream?
Read moreIn the cloud, you can have fast autoscale for functions, or slow autoscale for apps, but not both. In this blog post we show that on Unikraft Cloud millisecond autoscale for apps is not only possible, but available now.
articleMillisecond Scale-to-Zero and the Quest to Never Pay for Idle Again
Read moreYour workloads are intermittent, but your bill is always on? On Unikraft Cloud, a simple
-0flag is enough to have any of your apps scale-to-zero. No traffic? No running instance.
articleSimplifying Deployments with Compose files
Read moreIn a continued effort towards easing the construction and use-in-production unikernel dream, we’re excited to announce that we’ve introduced initial Compose file support into our tooling.