The development of cloud infrastructures inspires the emergence of cloud-native computing.
As the most promising architecture for deploying microservices, serverless computing has …

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) connecting billions of mobile and stationary
devices to serve real-time applications, cloud computing paradigms face some significant …

Unikernels are famous for providing excellent performance in terms of boot times,
throughput and memory consumption, to name a few metrics. However, they are infamous …

Traditionally, applications that are used in large and small enterprises were deployed on
“bare metal” servers installed with operating systems. Recently, the use of multiple virtual …

Virtualization is gaining attraction in the industry as it promises a flexible way to integrate,
manage, and re-use heterogeneous software components with mixed-criticality levels, on a …

Unikernels leverage library OS architectures to run isolated workloads on the cloud. They
have garnered attention in part due to their promised performance characteristics such as …

Unikernels are minimal, single-purpose virtual machines. This new operating system model
promises numerous benefits within many application domains in terms of lightweightness …

Memory disaggregation has replaced the landscape of dat-acenters by physically
separating compute and memory nodes, achieving improved utilization. As early efforts …

At design time, modern operating systems are locked in a specific safety and isolation
strategy that mixes one or more hardware/software protection mechanisms (eg user/kernel …

Context switching between kernel mode and user mode often causes prominent overhead,
which slows down applications with frequent system calls (or syscalls), eg, those with high …