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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The virtualization and networking platform could be datacenter based, with something like VMware, or cloud based using one of the cloud providers such as AWS EC2.

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The Best Way to Host MongoDB on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories. At ScaleGrid, we identified DigitalOcean as an up-and-coming rockstar for hosting MongoDB and cloud computing in general back in 2013, and were the first DBaaS platform to launch support for MongoDB DigitalOcean.

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