SESSION + Live Q&A
The Modern Operating System in 2018
The last monolith is the operating system. There are tens or hundreds of millions of lines of code in the kernel, and orders of magnitude more in the userspace code that gets shipped with it. Not just any code, security critical code written in unsafe languages. Every other area of software has been moving towards safe languages, microservices, and agile delivery. How do we get there for operating systems?
So what is the future of systems software and the operating system? This talk looks at unikernels, LinuxKit, eBPF, hypervisors, containers, library operating systems, userspace drivers and other recent developments to see where we are on the route towards agility for the operating system.
Speaker
Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
Justin Cormack is a software engineer at Docker. He works on security, developer tooling and more. He is always interested in new programming language technology.
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Speaker
Justin Cormack
Developer @Docker
Location
Windsor, 5th flr.
Track
Operating Systems: LinuxKit, Unikernels, & Beyond
Topics
Operating SystemsUnikernelLessonsInfrastructureDockerLinuxkitLinuxShare
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