NSDI 2015 talk on Jitsu at USENIX NSDI in Oakland, presenting our system for just-in-time summoning of unikernels. Jitsu addressed network latency by rapidly instantiating local services near users on resource-constrained ARM devices. The system used DNS-triggered launches to boot unikernels in milliseconds, masking boot latency through clever shared memory channels. We demonstrated that lightweight, memory-safe unikernels could provide secure multi-tenant isolation on embedded devices while being highly responsive and power-efficient.
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