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Comment by photios | original | Unikernels were hard. key word: were
[−]photios · 2026-10-11 Sun 10:05 UTC · link
Take this with a grain of salt. I haven't run unikernels in prod, so it's all a figment of my imagination.

> Tools such as `strace`, eBPF, `lsof`, `ss`, etc. have tremendous value.

But doesn't their value lie in getting you access to the core of the OS that you wouldn't be able to touch otherwise? What if your network stack was a library you could instrument just like you do with the rest of your app code?

Also, I don't need a tool to tell me I'm being punished by the IO or CPU scheduler if I am the only one using the CPU and IO :)