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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. KVM functions as a type 1 hypervisor, delivering performance similar to hardware—an edge over type 2 hypervisors.

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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

Especially in manufacturing-based industries, introducing more software that complements hardware can eliminate fixed costs and allow you to quickly scale up to a global level. And Mittelstand companies have fantastic opportunities, provided they digitize more of their existing business models.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. Nowadays, hardware and software are designed to conduct eye-tracking studies for marketing , UX , psychological and medical research , gaming , and several other use cases.

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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. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Since CPU and IO consumption translate directly to server hardware and cloud spend, this is significant. Most Queries Don't Wait.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. On YouTube, the average number of monthly users grew from 20 million in 2006 to 2 billion in 2020. Vimeo also has a continually growing user base.

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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. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. We have learned over time that we should not be afraid to develop our own hardware solutions to ensure our customers can achieve their goals.

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