Container technologies have received explosive attention in the past year – and rightfully so. Projects like Docker and CoreOS have done a fantastic job at popularizing operating system features that ...

Cloud systems are always built from three layers: machine, operating system (OS), and application. A few new projects are throwing away this classic approach and starting again with all-in-one ...

Like the fabled unicorn, there’s an air of mystery around unikernels. When Docker acquired Unikernel Systems in 2016, it was as if unikernel technology materialized from nowhere into the spotlight, ...

Docker's recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems has sent pulses racing in the microservice world. At the same time, many people have no clue what to make of it, so here's a quick explanation of why ...

Growing up in a household with a general contractor for a father meant two things, the house was always being remodeled and under construction and we were always working. It was always impressed on us ...

Unikernels are a smaller, faster, and more secure option for deploying applications on cloud infrastructure. With NanoVMs OPS, anyone can run a Linux application as a unikernel with no additional ...

Most technologists have heard about software containers (or simply “containers”) – a technology that became popularized by Docker, which is an open platform for building, shipping and running ...

If you think about it, an operating system kernel is really just a very powerful shared library that offers services to many programs. Of course, it is a very powerful library, but still — its main ...

Even before the industry fully understood and embraced containers, the next big thing is already here in the form of Unikernels. With Docker, Inc. acquiring a young, 13-member, London-based startup ...