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Introduction to KVM, SR-IOV, and Exploring the Advantages of SR-IOV in KVM Environments

DZone

Embedded within the Linux kernel, KVM empowers the creation of VMs with their virtualized hardware components, such as CPUs, memory, storage, and network cards, essentially mimicking a machine. Additionally, its standing development history since 2006 ensures a stable virtualization platform.

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Fallacy #8: The network is homogeneous

Particular Software

Around 2005 or 2006, it wasn’t so bad. Each RESTful endpoint is that developer’s definition of what REST means, which is different from what every other developer thinks REST means. The good news for us as developers is that it likely will provide us with job security for a long time to come. Interoperability is painful.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The participants seemed to lose motivation and develop mental fatigue. When dealing with application delays, it is possible that people can develop coping strategies that allow them to maintain productivity in the short term. When the number of interruptions grew, the resumption time (i.e., But the missing ingredient here is flow.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

French organizations were amongst the first to use AWS when we launched in 2006. Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months). We don’t plan to slow down or stop there.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram. 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.

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Proposal for a Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard

Adrian Cockcroft

I published a paper and presentation in 2006 that discusses the complexities of measuring CPU utilization. The Kepler project has developed what looks like a good approach to this, and I’ve started a discussion there to explore what would be needed [link]. The energy model in use should be reported as a key/value in the data feed.

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The AWS Pop-up Lofts are opening in London and Berlin

All Things Distributed

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been working closely with the startup community in London, and Europe, since we launched back in 2006. The London Loft will also feature an IoT Lab with a range of devices running on AWS services, many of which have been developed by our Solutions Architects.

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