
Release It! • Michael Nygard & Trisha Gee
GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech
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Is Virtualization Changing the Way We Do It?
There's a really fascinating thing happening in the large scale data centers where virtualization is now moving a layer below the CPU. It used to be that you'd run the hypervisor on the CPU and it would intercept all of your hardware operations. Now, especially in AWS and Azure, a lot of those things have been moved out onto the PCI bus. Your CPU is just running a regular operating system thinks it's talking to local storage but it's actually being intercepted by a smart device that turns it into a remote network call.
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