SPLVM Virtualized System Meetup

Host: Mossaka

1. Community hosted meetup for discussing anything related to distributed systems, operating systems, database, and networking. Currently focusing on virtualization, tracking course UCSD CSE 291.
2. Schedule
3. Biweekly Zoom meeting on Monday at 5pm PDT
4. Code of Conduct
5. Please use “Raise Hands” feature on Zoom
6. Welcome to unmute or comment in chat at ANY TIME!

Firecracker

Firecracker is an open source VMM that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services.

• A lightweight VMM (aka hypervisor) for serverless and container applications.

• Open source Rust project under Apache 2.0

• In production in AWS Lambda since 2018: trillions of reqs / month, millions of workloads

  

• rust-vmm, toolkit for building custom VMMs and hypervisors

Introduction

<aside> 💡 Serverless computing is an increasingly popular model for deploying and managing software and services

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They are attractive:

1. reduced work in operating servers and managing capacity
2. automatic scaling