Erm, does anyone still bother hiring in US/UK?
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FTL: A new operating system for clouds
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FTL is an operating system architecture for cloud workloads that pushes most OS functionality into user space as a library. Each container runs a userspace OS implementing processes, VFS, TCP/IP and other kernel abstractions, while an FTL kernel exposes a minimal hypervisor-like interface (vCPU, memory, drivers) using lightweight hardware-based user-mode isolation. That design aims to combine microkernel flexibility and security with monolithic performance: Linux binaries run unchanged (the site’s Rust HTTP server is an example) and specialized Unikernel-style applications can run without POSIX layers.
Because the OS is a library, developers can modify, extend, and debug kernel-like features as application code rather than kernel or eBPF hacking - adding instrumentation, security updates, or new subsystems safely and quickly. The project has already released v0.0.1 (simple Linux HTTP server) and v0.1.0 (async Rust threads/epoll) and plans filesystem support, Node.js/Go runtimes, SMP, container image handling, and 64-bit Arm over the next months. The codebase and a detailed introduction are available on GitHub and in a project blog; the site itself is served by FTL.
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