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Red Hat Emerging Technologies
Company blog · next.redhat.comsystems
Red Hat Emerging Technologies is the company blog at next.redhat.com, writing about systems. Since 2018, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “UKL: A Unikernel Based on Linux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Red Hat Emerging Technologies posts are linked as background on unikernels, TPM-based trust with Keylime, Sigstore model signing, and WebAssembly as a container runtime. Commenters cite them as sources and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- UKL: A Unikernel Based on Linux3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-11-15
- The UOR-Universal Object Reference Framework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-13
- Keylime: Using TPM to Secure Your Slice of the Cloud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Here's some words Red Hat folks wrote[0] about Keylime[1][2], "open source scalable trust system harnessing TPM Technology,"[3] written in python and rust, originally created within MIT Lincoln Labs.[4] It leverages TMP 1.2 and 2.0[5] and also involves/includes/references code from Intel[6] and Cloudflare[7]. [0] https://next.redhat.com/2019/06/25/keylime-using-tpm-to-secu... [1] https://keylime.dev/ [2] https://www…
Comment linking /2019/06/25/keylime-using-tpm-to-secure-your-slice-of-the-cloud/
on “Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything”Submitted UKL: A Unikernel Based on Linux as a story · 156 points
HN discussionYeah sorry my answer was more than insufficient to be honest. I wrote it _in bed_ and was embarrassed the next day because it was of really low quality. Thought of expanding it later. So yeah I screwed the pooch here and I'm sorry, I will try to do better now by expanding on my answer. First of all this is all from memory and I didn't try seaweedfs again for this. So first things first. I evaluated seaweedfs for HPC…
Comment linking /2021/01/18/crimson-evolving-ceph-for-high-performance-nvme/
on “6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard”Submitted MicroShift as a story · 123 points
HN discussionNot in RHEL 8 but I'm working with a student on this. There's a rather general non-technical article here: https://next.redhat.com/2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-...
Comment linking /2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-linux/
on “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta”Submitted The UOR-Universal Object Reference Framework as a story · 41 points
HN discussionMore info https://next.redhat.com/2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-... https://github.com/razaaliraza/ukl
Comment linking /2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-linux/
on “Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance [pdf]”Submitted Software-defined processors: the promise of RISC-V as a story · 6 points
HN discussion[Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat in this area, but don't speak for IBM or their CTO] I think reading between the lines this is really about Kata Containers-style fast booting virtual machines which run containers and give you a bit more security. Development of this is very far along, expect to see this being deployed widely soon by enterprises and others who have security sensitive container workloads. The unikernel…
Comment linking /2018/11/14/ukl-a-unikernel-based-on-linux/
on “IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead”Submitted UOR is a radically different approach to serverless and decentralized systems as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSemantics but the article is describing model "fingerprints" for basically stylometrics; that's a partial not a signature. These are "signatures": https://github.com/sigstore/model-transparency "Model authenticity and transparency with Sigstore" (2025) https://next.redhat.com/2025/04/10/model-authenticity-and-tr...
Comment linking /2025/04/10/model-authenticity-and-transparency-with-sigstore/
on “Every Language Model Has a Forgery-Resistant Signature”Submitted Kubernetes and the Platform of the Future as a story · 4 points
HN discussionActually there is support for using WASM as a container runtime. You could in theory have WASM containers and Linux containers next to each other on the same K8s cluster. Not sure that I’d recommend it in production just yet, but it’s certainly usable https://next.redhat.com/2023/02/01/running-webassembly-workl...
Comment linking /2023/02/01/running-webassembly-workloads-on-container-runtimes/
on “The advantage of WASM compared with container runtimes”Submitted Prometheus Anomaly Detection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBy comparison, Python has removed PGP signature support with PEP 761 and instead depends upon sigstore fulcio. /? https://www.google.com/search?q=removed+gpg+and+sigstore+onl... IIRC OpenPGP signatures do work with W3C VC; there's a URI for the key type and algorithm? "Chapter 8. Signing container images" and any other OCI artifact: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_... : > You can use a GN…
Comment linking /2025/04/10/model-authenticity-and-transparency-with-sigstore/
on “RPM 6.0 Released with OpenPGP Improvements and Signature Checking by Default”Submitted What is a trusted computing base? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keylime: Using TPM to Secure Your Slice of the Cloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Next Generation Tools for Container Technology as a story · 1 points
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