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Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way

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Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way. / Kuenzer, Simon; Bădoiu, Vlad-Andrei; Lefeuvre, Hugo et al.
EuroSys '21: Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. New York: ACM, 2021. p. 376-394.

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Kuenzer, S, Bădoiu, V-A, Lefeuvre, H, Santhanam, S, Jung, A, Gain, G, Soldani, C, Lupu, C, Teodorescu, Ş, Răducanu, C, Banu, C, Mathy, L, Deaconescu, R, Raiciu, C & Huici, F 2021, Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way. in EuroSys '21: Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 376-394. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447786.3456248

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Kuenzer, S., Bădoiu, V.-A., Lefeuvre, H., Santhanam, S., Jung, A., Gain, G., Soldani, C., Lupu, C., Teodorescu, Ş., Răducanu, C., Banu, C., Mathy, L., Deaconescu, R., Raiciu, C., & Huici, F. (2021). Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way. In EuroSys '21: Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (pp. 376-394). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447786.3456248

Vancouver

Kuenzer S, Bădoiu VA, Lefeuvre H, Santhanam S, Jung A, Gain G et al. Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way. In EuroSys '21: Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. New York: ACM. 2021. p. 376-394 doi: 10.1145/3447786.3456248

Author

Kuenzer, Simon ; Bădoiu, Vlad-Andrei ; Lefeuvre, Hugo et al. / Unikraft : Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way. EuroSys '21: Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. New York : ACM, 2021. pp. 376-394

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