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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.

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.

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.

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.

In 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

Innovative Serverless Cloud Platform Lauded for Speed, Scalability, and Flexibility

Based 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.

In 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).

Current 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.

In 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.

Your workloads are intermittent, but your bill is always on? On Unikraft Cloud, a simple -0 flag is enough to have any of your apps scale-to-zero. No traffic? No running instance.

In 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.

We often get asked whether unikernels and WebAssembly are competing technologies. In this article we give background on what unikernels are and explain why they’re complementary to WebAssembly.

Unikraft hit 2K stars on Github last week. We take this opportunity to look back at its origins as a research project, its coming of age as a Linux Foundation open source project, and its future as a fundamental game changer for cloud deployments.

In the longing for an explanation and comparison between the two, this article demonstrates how conceptually these two models are in fact the same primitive and how Unikraft uses containers to make unikernels.

At Unikraft we’re introducing Unikraft Cloud a next generation cloud platform powered by technology intended to work in millisecond timescales.

As part of an on-going effort to deliver performance excellent, Unikraft submits research contributions to the leading European systems conference.