[blorgle]

I have been following ZeroVM since it's inception and often go to the website and stare longingly at my screen thinking of amazing things it could do (when coupled with OpenStack Swift to make "ZeroCloud"). If you look at my HN comment history you can see multiple articles about "serverless" where I tried to tell people about ZeroVM.

But they got bought by Rackspace (who originally open sourced Swift) in late 2013, and then their github account activity dropped to 0 by early 2015. Rackspace has probably one of the worlds largest Swift deployments, so maybe one day they will do some cool things with ZeroVM ala ZeroCloud but for now the forward movement of the project seems dead or at least proprietary :(

Other interesting implementations of the same concept include Joyents Manta, which is also open source and actually probably more flexible than ZeroCloud (you can SSH into your container).

[notmyname]

Yeah the lack of further work on ZeroVM is unfortunate. You may be interested in https://github.com/openstack/storlets which is conceptually similar and is being actively developed.

[sriku]

Yes indeed, sad to see this work go down. Most likely due to Google pulling people out of the NaCl sandbox project.

Thanks for the pointer to Manta.

[saryant]

I knew some of the devs (they were in the same TechStars Cloud group as the last company I worked for). Brilliant team that lost the wind in their sails after the acquisition.