ScyllaDB’s CTO Avi Kivity dives into how high performance distributed systems such as modern databases can make best, most efficient use of fast NVMe storage.
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ScyllaDB’s CTO Avi Kivity dives into how high performance distributed systems such as modern databases can make best, most efficient use of fast NVMe storage.

Avi Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to bring the same kind of innovation to the public cloud space.