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Hyperlight at KubeCon NA 2024: Keynote Demo

At the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 keynote in Salt Lake City, Microsoft’s Rita Zhang demonstrated Hyperlight on stage, showing how it can execute multiple functions inside a micro virtual machine and return results in just 0.0009 seconds on average. This was one of Hyperlight’s first major public appearances and showcased the project’s sub-millisecond execution capabilities to the cloud-native community.

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Introducing Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale

The Microsoft Azure Core Upstream team announced Hyperlight, an open-source Rust library for executing small, embedded functions using hypervisor-based protection at scale. Hyperlight creates micro-VMs in 1–2 milliseconds — about two orders of magnitude faster than traditional VMs — by eliminating the guest OS, virtual devices, and kernel boot entirely. The post covers the motivation behind Hyperlight, its architecture, and includes a Rust code walkthrough. Written by Yosh Wuyts.

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