https://www.infoq.com InfoQ microkernel feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/qcon-million-sandboxes-server/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=microkernel <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/03/qcon-million-sandboxes-server/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1773771638183.jpg"/><p>Unikraft CEO Felipe Huici demonstrated waking the one-millionth VM on a commodity server in ten milliseconds at QCon London. The talk traced a decade from academic unikernel research to a platform offering stateless scale-to-zero VMs with full isolation. Using Firecracker and VM snapshots, sleeping workloads resume instantly, turning server density from a hardware problem into a scheduling one.</p> <i>By Steef-Jan Wiggers</i> microkernel QCon London 2026 Artificial Intelligence Virtual Machines Development Architecture & Design DevOps AI, ML & Data Engineering news Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:02:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/qcon-million-sandboxes-server/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=microkernel Steef-Jan Wiggers 2026-03-23T10:02:00Z /news/2026/03/qcon-million-sandboxes-server/en