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

Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the standard for container orchestration. It provides declarative configuration, self-healing, horizontal scaling, and service discovery. Key components include pods, services, deployments, and namespaces.

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RDMA

Remote Direct Memory Access - a technology that allows direct memory access between computers without involving the CPU.

cgroups

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

CUDA

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

Quantum Entanglement

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

GitOps

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

Qubit

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