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Designing Secure Services with Unikernels: a Tough Nut to Crack
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Summary
Anil Madhavapeddy describes how to design and build "deploy-and-forget" cloud services that are specialized into unikernels: compact, single-address space virtual machines built in a high-level language that are largely immune to conventional buffer overflow attacks due to their type-safety down to the device drivers.
Bio
Anil Madhavapeddy is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, based in the Systems Research Group. He is co-chair of the Commercial Uses of Functional Programming workshop, and an author of the O'Reilly Real World OCaml book.
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Aug 09, 2015