We want to create a 'why' video. It's basically an explainer video but I don't like the term 'explainer' in this case cause we aren't showcasing a product in it. We'll be explaining the history of operating systems and what our proposal is to deal with some of the problems we have today in terms of security, cost, and performance.
I'm looking for either an actor or stock footage with a voiceover - I do *not* want animations at all. Let me be clear on that - I do *not* want an animation for this video. I'm ambivalent on whether it should be serious/inspirational or fun/hip - that's probably up to you. I'd imagine before we get started we'll hop on a skype call to further hash out requirements/script and then I'd think I'll want to see a rough storyboard before we get into it much.
I also need to see your latest reel or portfolio and maybe suggest to me one of the styles you'd think would be good for this.
The rough script I have looks like the following:
Why unikernels?
Why not containers?
Why not just plain old linux?
Security - google 1b fine
Facebook - 1b fine
Uber - 165m fine
Google is entirely built on linux.
Uber is entirely built on linux.
Facebook is entirely built on linux.
So security is still a ridiculously large issue.
Infrastructure cost - dropbox saving 75m/yr
Infrastructure cost - segment finding a 1m in their aws acct
So cost is also an issue.
Lastly - can we talk about how complex most devops software is today and ask why should it be that way?
What went wrong? How did we get to this point?
For that we have to rewind almost 50 years ago.
Dennis Ritche && Ken Thompson working on a pdp11 - machine took up an entire damn wall, cost half million dollars, it *had* to support multiple users with multiple processes;
Linux was released in 93 and was "deprecated" the day it came out mainly cause there was nothing new Andrew Tanenbaum, the computer science professor that wrote the operating systems books you might've used in college got into an infamous usenet flame war with Linus over this.
Keep in mind this was 8-9 years *before* vmware - that is commercialized virtualization. Keep in mind in later revisions Andrews et al ask the pointed question if hypervisors are 'microkernels done right'.
Small little bookstore named 'amazon' introduced ec2 to the world forever changing infrastructure as we know it - the "cloud" is merely an api into virtualization
The reality is today - developers don't have one server to work with anymore - they have thousands - if you're an engineer at uber or twitter or something like that you don't have one database - you have thousands, pools of app servers, clusters of databases and developer already deploy their systems as if they were unikernels anyways
If we are consigned to using the cloud then unikernels are the logical unit of encapsulation for it.
Payoff:
The big 'aha' moment with security is that attackers don't care about what bug they are exploiting to break into their system - it's just the key to the house - what they want to do is run their programs on your server - whether it's crypto-mining or mysqldump - those all entail running other programs - keep in mind even the most advanced rop gadgets in the world only spawn shells. Run other programs..
What's interesting is that solving some of these fundamental issues in our operating systems will allow us to run our programs faster and embrace more ops easier than current devops practices.
About the recuiterMember since May 20, 2018 Raymond Sahadeo
from Delaware, United States