Misael Zapatahttp://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Personal site of Misael ZapataHugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000node-vmm: VM isolation that feels like spawning a processhttp://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/node-vmm-instant-vms/Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Misael Zapatahttp://misael.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/node-vmm-instant-vms/<div class="featured-image"> <img src="/node-vmm-instant-vms/images/cover.png" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"> </div>1 The comfortable lie about containersThere is a polite fiction in modern development that everyone accepts because it is convenient: we pretend Docker containers are fast and lightweight. And they are, if your reference point is provisioning bare metal in 2005. But as my tools needed to isolate workloads more frequently — and more dynamically — I started feeling the drag of depending on a giant external engine sitting between me and what I actually wanted.