Eventually, almost everything will become connected to the internet. However, with each big shift we carry forward legacy ideas, embodied in code, into these new environments — e.g. deploying fat VMs that only run one service. Containerisation and minimal OSs are mitigating this but there's still a way to go.

The IoT is an even more exotic environment and we must make it accessible to developers, without them having to relearn from scratch. One way of solving this is to improve our cloud software in a way that also extends to programming for the IoT. Unikernels, an extreme form of minimal OS, offer a fresh approach that spans both cloud and IoT. By combining unikernels with a familiar toolchain, we can greatly accelerate developer access to IoT.

This talk covers how we build systems today and will provide a demo of what unikernels offer for programming both the cloud and IoT.