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

NVMe provides lower latency and higher throughput than SATA or SAS interfaces by leveraging PCIe's parallel architecture. NVMe drives can achieve millions of IOPS and are essential for high-performance storage systems. NVMe-oF extends these benefits over network fabrics.

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GitOps

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

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The core component of an operating system that manages system resources and provides services to applications.

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Kubernetes

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

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

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