Microservices => (Distributed) Monoliths ?

A controversial statement from Kelsey Hightower, prominent in K8S community,
co-author of book Kubernetes: Up and Running

(also available as free download from Microsoft)


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"Monoliths are the future because the problem people are trying to solve with microservices doesn’t really line up with reality."
//changelog.com/gotime/114

//changelog.com/gotime/114#transcript-96

AWS FireCracker MicroVM, Crome OS, Lambda, Rust

//firecracker-microvm.github.io

"Firecracker is an alternative to QEMU that is purpose-built for running serverless functions and containers safely and efficiently, and nothing more. Firecracker is written in Rust, provides a minimal required device model to the guest operating system while excluding non-essential functionality (only 5 emulated devices are available: virtio-net, virtio-block, virtio-vsock, serial console, and a minimal keyboard controller used only to stop the microVM). This, along with a streamlined kernel loading process enables a < 125 ms startup time and a < 5 MiB memory footprint."
//jaxenter.com/serverless-firecracker-aws-152371

• Firecracker’s language of choice: Rust. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t; Firecracker has roots in crosvm – the Chrome OS virtual machine monitor, which was written in Rust. Virtual machines written in Rust benefit from the language’s memory safety.
• Windows support? Not here. Firecracker is a Kernel-based virtual machine. It can only support Linux kernel v4.14 and higher.

Firecracker: A Secure and Fast microVM for Serverless Computing @ YouTube

Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing @ aws blog

• "Secure – Firecracker uses multiple levels of isolation and protection, and exposes a minimal attack surface.
• High Performance – You can launch a microVM in as little as 125 ms today (and even faster in 2019), 
• Battle-Tested – Firecracker has been battled-tested and is already powering multiple high-volume AWS services including AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate.
• Low Overhead – Firecracker consumes about 5 MiB of memory per microVM. You can run thousands of secure VMs with widely varying vCPU and memory configurations on the same instance.
• Open Source – Firecracker is an active open source project."

Introducing Firecracker, a New Virtualization Technology and Open Source Project for Running Multi-Tenant Container Workloads @AWS


thenewstack.io/how-firecracker-is-going-to-set-modern-infrastructure-on-fire