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Control groups - a Linux kernel feature for limiting, accounting, and isolating resource usage of process collections.

cgroups enable fine-grained control over CPU, memory, I/O, and network resources for processes. They are fundamental to container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. cgroups v2 provides a unified hierarchy and improved resource management.

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GitOps

An operational framework that uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application configurations.

Quantum Entanglement

A quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become correlated so that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently.

Qubit

The fundamental unit of quantum information, analogous to a classical bit but capable of existing in superposition states.

CUDA

NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model for general computing on GPUs.

NVMe

Non-Volatile Memory Express - a specification for accessing solid-state storage over PCIe.

Kubernetes

An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.