Pivotal - OSv: Probably the Best OS for Cloud Workloads You've Never Heard Of (CF Summit 2014)
Technical track breakout session presented by Roman Shaposhnik, Sr. Manager of Hadoop at Pivotal. OSv is the revolutionary new open source technology that combines the power of virtualization and micro-services architecture. This combination allows unmodified applications deployed in a virtualized environment to outperform bare-metal deployments. Yes. You've heard it right: for the first time ever we can stop asking the question of how much performance would I lose if I virtualize. OSv lets you ask a different question: how much would my application gain in performance if I virtualize it. This talk will start by looking into the architecture of OSv and the kind of optimizations it makes possible for native, unmodified applications. We will then focus on JVM-specific optimizations and specifically on speedups available to big data management distributed applications. Finally, we will look into the relationship between OSv and Docker and how that layering can help make OSv a secret sauce for turbo-charging Cloud Foundry application deployments.
