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jjacobson93on Execute Docker Containers as QEMU MicroVMs

Yeah, the author is incorrect. Fly.io uses Firecracker but they didn’t create it.

jjacobson93on Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

I just use a script on a cron that runs every 15 minutes and updates my DNS provider. And for let’s encrypt, I use the DNS verification method so you don’t have to even expose HTTP(S) ports if you don’t need to

jjacobson93on Open Application Model – An open standard for defining cloud native apps

Computer science is all about abstractions. You can keep on going down with your examples: VMs are an abstraction on top of an operating system, which is an abstraction on top of virtual memory, on top of a physical machine...

Just like Python is an abstraction on top of C, which is an abstraction on top of assembly language, which is an abstraction of a CPU and memory, etc.

There’s reasons for all of the abstractions.