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articleUnikraft and WebAssembly: Friends or Foes?
Read moreWe 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.
articleThe History of Unikraft
Read moreUnikraft 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.
articleContainers and Unikernels: Conceptually Similar, Fundamentally Different, and Inextricably Intertwined.
Read moreIn 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.
articleIntroducing Unikraft Cloud
Read moreAt Unikraft we’re introducing Unikraft Cloud a next generation cloud platform powered by technology intended to work in millisecond timescales.
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Death to Cold Starts
Read moreCold starts are a real pain. Unikraft Cloud provides cold starts in the order of a few milliseconds with hardware-level isolation; in this post we explain how.
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Why the Future of Cloud Deployments is Unikernels – and why with Unikraft that Future is Near
Read moreThe holy grail of cloud deployments is to be able to have images that are (1) performant and efficient, (2) have strong security and isolation, and (3) are easy to use and have a rich tooling environment around them. Until now, we could only pick 2 out of the 3…emphasis on “until now”
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Unikraft vs. UKL: What's the Difference?
Read moreUKL is not the right approach towards extremely specialized unikernels.
articleUnikraft receives 'Best Paper' award at EuroSys21
Read moreAs part of an on-going effort to deliver performance excellent, Unikraft submits research contributions to the leading European systems conference.
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Unikraft named most convincing startup
Read moreAs part of Technology Ventures Rhein-Neckar’s investorSpeed-Dating event in April, Unikraft was named most convincing startup event this April.
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Pushing Unikernels into the Mainstream with Unikraft
Read moreUnikernels have been around for many years and are famous for providing excellent performance in boot times, throughput, and memory consumption, to name a few metrics.
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Cut your Cloud Computing Costs by Half with Unikraft
Read moreA novel modular unikernel allows for extreme tailoring of your operating system to your application’s needs.
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How it all started
Read moreUnikraft has become a vibrant Open-Source community, but how did it start and where is it going?