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You should explain why you're struggling,exactly. There's every chance you're interviewing great developers but either your process or understanding of how to evaluate people is poor.

I know that is sacrilege.... every employer believes with utter certainty that they know exactly how to pick great people, but I think that's often incorrect and arrogant.... i.e. YOU might be the problem.

Because you can then build single function unikernels that do one thing very fast then disappear from RAM.

The point being that docker is actually a really clunky thing that is reinventing the virtual server ecosystem within the OS which is pointless.

Serverless systems are better implemented as unikernels than docker images.

Unikernels make it possible to boot an entire OS in milliseconds, service an inbound web request, then disappear.

The real problem for unikernels is that they are effectively irrelevant until the major clouds provide millisecond boot times along with appropriate pricing models that charge for execution on a millisecond level basis.

Developers love to write code, but unless unikernel developers start speaking up instead of writing code, the major clouds won't get on board and provide the needed fast boot times plus pricing, which makes all this unikernel code not a lot more than interesting personal / academic projects.

Questions of unikernel security are certainly academic if the cloud infrastructure doesn't run them in the most effective manner.