What I imagine is a giant machine with thousands of cores, running a unikernel scheduler, for horizontal-scaling apps.
That means hardware vendors can sell their produce directly to application developers, instead of being shoved behind scene by Cloud vendors.
That might means reinventing OS, which can be argued for K8s as well, which is also reinventing similar OS concepts (process management == job management, threading == sharding, ipc == SOA, kernel scheduling == container scheduling).
But the point is that it offers a produce that has technical superiority, and hardware vendors would have more expertise to build them, i.e., unikernel would have much more intimate relationship with baremetal than containers, where hardware vendors would naturally know better to optimize.
What I imagine is a giant machine with thousands of cores, running a unikernel scheduler, for horizontal-scaling apps.
That means hardware vendors can sell their produce directly to application developers, instead of being shoved behind scene by Cloud vendors.
That might means reinventing OS, which can be argued for K8s as well, which is also reinventing similar OS concepts (process management == job management, threading == sharding, ipc == SOA, kernel scheduling == container scheduling).
But the point is that it offers a produce that has technical superiority, and hardware vendors would have more expertise to build them, i.e., unikernel would have much more intimate relationship with baremetal than containers, where hardware vendors would naturally know better to optimize.