John Feminella, Technical Advisor at Pivotal, tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark about unikernels: what they are, how they relate to containers, and why they are all the hype in cloud computing.

About John

John Feminella 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
• Open source demos from Instrument: Query It! and Emotobooth
• Google Cloud I/O talks playlist
• Firebase I/O talks playlist

Interviews

• container.camp SF: Unikernels: Practical Advice for Juggling Chainsaws video
• Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System ACM
• http://unikernel.org
• Amir Chaudhry talk at Craft Conf notes
• Unikernel on Google Compute Engine: Running an OSv Unikernel Tomcat Server medium
• MirageOS, a unikernel for OCaml
• RumpRun supports other languages like C, C++, Go, Javascript, Python, etc.
• Unikernels are unfit for production blog

Question of the week

• How can I generate Google Cloud Deployment Manager files from my current architecture? GitHub

Where can you find us next?

• Mark will then be at Change the Game SF
• Francesc will be riding the AIDS/Lifecycle and if you want you can donate.