Faster than Linux

Written by eyberg | Published 2020/04/24
Tech Story Tags: unikernels | osdev | infrastructure | rust | golang | cloud | performance | coding

TLDR NanoVMs has been working with unikernels for a while now but we've mostly been focused on their security properties. This is because there are certain privileged instructions that allow you to change page mappings and if you have that capability then all the ASLR and page protections in the world don't matter. You're going to get hacked. You should be able to replicate this with most Go releases just by using the latest Nanos release but if you are using Go 1.14 you'll need to build nanos from source (or use the nightly release)via the TL;DR App

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Written by eyberg | hackity hack
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/04/24