Jitsu: Just-In-Time Summoning of Unikernels / May 2015
Paper on spinning up low-latency unikernels per-connection at NSDI 2015, one of the top systems conferences. Jitsu demonstrated that MirageOS unikernels could boot fast enough (milliseconds) to be instantiated on-demand in response to network traffic, masking boot latency through DNS tricks. Working with Thomas Leonard, Magnus Skjegstad and a large team, we showed this was practical even on resource-constrained ARM devices, enabling secure multi-tenant edge computing years before it became mainstream. The paper won acclaim for demonstrating compelling performance while maintaining type-1 hypervisor isolation guarantees.