Imo unikernels are a complicated solution in search of a problem, which turns out to not exist.
There certainly are times OSs get in the way. But it's hard enough to write a good database, we don't need to maintain a third of an OS in addition.
There certainly are times OSs get in the way. But it's hard enough to write a good database, we don't need to maintain a third of an OS in addition.
That said, perhaps at AWS or Google scale that would be different? I wonder if they've looked at this stuff internally.