Unikernel

• Unikernels: Specializing the OS for a Single Application, from MirageOS to IncludeOS and the Performance-Security Trade-offs · 2020-05-26

  A deep exploration of unikernel architecture — how compiling an application directly into a specialized operating system kernel produces dramatic performance and security benefits while challenging decades of OS design orthodoxy.

• Exokernels & Library OS: MIT's Radical Vision, Secure Multiplexing, and the Unikernel Lineage · 2020-04-01

  A deep exploration of exokernel architecture from MIT's Aegis/XOK/ExOS stack through the secure multiplexing problem to the modern unikernel renaissance that vindicated the library OS philosophy.