The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a casual, insightful conversation with Cantrill, and referenced for his views on containers and unikernels.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2015 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends beefhash · 2018-02 · on “Talks I have given”
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] [this video] [3] [LINK]
Cites mwcampbell · 2015-12 · on “The Oncoming Train of Enterprise Container Deployments”
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: [this video]
Cites X86BSD · 2016-04 · on “Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf]”
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] [this video]