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by SideburnsOfDoom 3807 days ago
> With unikernels you get a lot more consistency

That's not unique to unikernels. You can get that with Docker containers or EC2 instances on AWS.
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lmm 3807 days ago
There's a lot more that can happen differently there. Docker doesn't hide all the details of the filesystem, kernel version, or the like. With EC2 instances you're still running a kernel that has a lot of moving parts of its own.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3806 days ago
> . With EC2 instances you're still running a kernel that has a lot of moving parts of its own.

I'm sure that's true, but it's not a statement directly about consistency.

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lmm 3805 days ago
It's a lot harder to get consistency out of a non-unikernel system running on EC2 - e.g. IME the linux boot/hardware probing process can behave nondeterministically before it even starts running your user program.
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