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The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117

The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117 on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2015–2018.

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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.

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“I also found the somewhat more casual BSDnow podcasts that featured Mr. Cantrill quite insightful”
— beefhash, Feb 2018, in “Talks I have given”

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beefhashFeb 2018Recommends

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]

in “Talks I have given” · View on HN

X86BSDApr 2016Cites it

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

in “Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf]” · View on HN

mwcampbellDec 2015Cites it

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

in “The Oncoming Train of Enterprise Container Deployments” · View on HN

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