Cut Your Cloud Computing Costs by Half with Unikraft

Explore how to significantly reduce cloud computing expenses using Unikraft in this informative conference talk by Felipe Huici from NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH. Delve into the challenges of private and public cloud computing, and discover the power of unikernels as a solution. Learn about Unikraft's design principles, specialized APIs, and POSIX compatibility approaches. Examine syscall support for popular applications, image sizes, boot times, and memory requirements. Compare Unikraft's performance with other projects for nginx and Redis. Investigate filesystem specialization and seamless integration strategies to optimize your cloud infrastructure and potentially halve your costs.

Intro
The Private/Public Cloud
The Problem Part 2: Time
Unikernel Power
Unikernels in One Slide
Design Principles
Doing it with existing unikernels?
Specialized API Example
POSIX Compatibility - Two Approache
Syscall Support Top 30 Debian Popcon Apps
The Intuition
Syscalls: What's really needed
What Syscalls do I Really Need?
SQLite: Manual vs. Auto Port
Image Sizes vs. Other Projects
Unikraft Boot Times
Minimum Memory Requirements
nginx Throughput
Redis Performance
Boot Times - Different Allocators
Redis Throughput Different Allocators
Filesystem Specialization - SHFS
Towards Seamless Integration & Deployment