The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117

Jupiter Broadcasting · 9.2K views · 2015-11-26 · 2:13:32

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Overview

An episode of the BSD Now podcast in which Bryan Cantrill joins the hosts to rant about Linux interfaces, alongside the week's BSD headlines. The conversation also touches on containers and related systems topics.

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Cited as a casual, insightful conversation with Cantrill, and referenced for his views on containers and unikernels.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2015–2018

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Operating systems & kernels Linux & open-source ecosystems Tech pioneers & interviews

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beefhash · 2018-02 · Recommendation
I also found the somewhat more casual BSDnow podcasts that featured Mr. Cantrill quite insightful[1,2,3]. He shows up around 15 or 30 minutes in. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO] [3] [LINK]
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X86BSD · 2016-04 · Reference
Listen to this discussion[0] which highlights the point I am making. I set the marker for the relevant "container" comment but watch the entire thing to understand more fully what I and others are saying and why. [0] [VIDEO]
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mwcampbell · 2015-12 · Reference
I think the Alpine Linux image for Docker is a good solution to the point about userland bloat. Much better than unikernels, which would entail giving up all the benefits of running containers on a shared, mature OS kernel, particularly with regard to performance, resource pooling, and debuggability. I'm still waiting for bcantrill, who actually has experience with large-scale production systems (unlike me), to expound on why he believes unikernels are a terrible idea, as he said in a brief rant here: [VIDEO]
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