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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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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

But every year when March 14th comes around, it's a good reminder that Amazon S3 originally launched on Pi Day, March 14, 2006. A concept that has changed infrastructure architecture is now at the core of both AWS and customer reliability and operations. The Amazon S3 team still celebrate with homemade pies!

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

At the instance level, many CPU and system architectures have direct access to power consumption metrics. Clock rates also change, some ARM architectures include a mixture of high performance and low power cores in the same CPU, and Intel architecture CPUs have hyperthreading, so the performance of an execution thread will vary over time.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale.

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Top Frontend Frameworks to use in 2022

Enprowess

React got popular due to the virtual document object model (DOM) which enables it to enhance performance of web apps and PWA significantly. Usage of Virtual DOM allows efficient rendering where only certain part of webpage is rerendered speeding up performance. Absence of Virtual DOM results in less memory intensive applications.

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How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js

Smashing Magazine

When jQuery appeared in 2006, a lot of developers and organizations started to adopt it for their projects. React, i.e., works with the “virtual DOM”, which is a DOM representation in the memory, whereas jQuery interacts directly with the DOM, in a less performant way. How To Migrate From jQuery To Next.js. Facundo Giuliani.