Dinesh Subhraveti
Dinesh Subhraveti is currently the Founder and Chief Scientist at a stealth company. He developed the notion of Operating System level virtualization as a part of his Ph.D., which later came to be known in the industry as Containers. Published in OSDI 2002, his work showed for the first time that enterprise applications can be virtualized and live-migrated. Dinesh applied that research to drive industry's first Container virtualization product for enterprise Linux applications at Meiosys, the company behind LXC (LinuX Containers) that IBM acquired in 2005. He authored over 35 patents and papers in the areas of virtualization, storage and operating systems, and holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University.
The unwelcome guest: Why VMs aren’t the solution for next-gen applications
Scale-out applications need scaled-in virtualization.
Data center operating systems are emerging as a first-class category of distributed system software. Hadoop, for example, is evolving from a MapReduce framework into YARN, a generic platform for scale-out applications.
To enable a rich ecosystem of diverse applications to coexist on these platforms, providing adequate isolation is crucial. The isolation mechanism must enforce resource limits, decouple software dependencies among applications and the host, provide security and privacy, confine failures, etc. Containers offer a simple and elegant solution to the problem. However, a question that comes up frequently is: Why not virtual machines (VMs)? After all, these systems face a number of the same challenges that have been solved by virtualization for traditional enterprise applications.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except of course for the problem of too many indirections” — David Wheeler