John Feminella (https://twitter.com/jxxf), Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells

your cohosts Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and

Mark (https://twitter.com/neurotic) about unikernels: what they are, how they

relate to containers, and why they are all the hype in cloud computing.

About John

John Feminella (https://twitter.com/jxxf) is an avid technologist, occasional

public speaker, and curiosity advocate. He serves as an advisor to Pivotal,

where he works on helping enterprises transform the way they write, operate,

and deploy software. He’s also the cofounder of a tiny analytics monitoring

and reporting startup named UpHex.

He works with unikernels experimentally and is very interested in their

application to platforms of the future.

John lives in Charlottesville, VA and likes meta-jokes, milkshakes, and

referring to himself in the third person in speaker bios.

Cool thing of the week

* Firebase expands to become a unified app platform blog (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/05/firebase-expands-to-become-unified-app-platform.html)

* Open source demos from Instrument: Query It! (https://github.com/Instrument/query-it) and Emotobooth (https://github.com/Instrument/emotobooth)

* Google Cloud I/O talks playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqJYl6ZPwwd7OM4Wt_SJsBHs)

* Firebase I/O talks playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl-K7zZEsYLlAyGS6_paVoGJ9YKC7J3NN)

Interviews

* container.camp SF: Unikernels: Practical Advice for Juggling Chainsaws video (https://youtu.be/rV6FZZY2jUM)

* Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System ACM (http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2566628)

* http://unikernel.org (http://unikernel.org)

* Amir Chaudhry (https://twitter.com/amirmc) talk at Craft Conf notes (http://amirchaudhry.com/craftconf2016)

* Unikernel on Google Compute Engine: Running an OSv Unikernel Tomcat Server medium (https://medium.com/google-cloud/unikernel-on-google-compute-engine-part-1-running-an-osv-unikernel-tomcat-server-45bd9816910#.2emn2c2k3)

* MirageOS (https://mirage.io/), a unikernel for OCaml (https://ocaml.org/)

* RumpRun (https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun) supports other languages like C, C++, Go, Javascript, Python, etc.

* Unikernels are unfit for production blog (https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-production)

Question of the week

* How can I generate Google Cloud Deployment Manager (https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/) files from my current architecture? GitHub (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/deploymentmanager-samples/tree/master/tools/genconfig)

Where can you find us next?

* Mark will then be at Change the Game SF (https://cloudplatformonline.com/ChangeTheGameSummit-SF_Registration.html)

* Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle (http://www.aidslifecycle.org/) and if you want you can donate (http://campoy.cat/alc).

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