Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It was founded in 2006 and has since grown to have over 210 million users in 190 countries, and hosts over five million domains. And it also engaged with the performance community as a whole, for example by attending conferences, bringing in domain experts, and studying up on modern architectures such as the Jamstack.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. AWS called this [enhanced networking].

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Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40