Introduction To Virtuoso
Background
This document provides a comprehensive introduction to Virtuoso and Montage to capture all of the relevant background and useful conceptualizations. Comprehensivenses, rather than conciseness, is the main goal, because as users become more aware of the multifaceted problems that it solves and the power that it provides, the more users will naturally invest in using the infrastructure and building out content.
Software technologies, like music genres or languages, continue to morph and evolve. Some technologies share a close common evolutionary ancestry, while others are more distant. Different technology domains, like embedded, cloud, simulation, etc., develop their own distinct dialects, sometimes reproducing the same concepts. The cloud-native landscape shown below, from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, gives an idea of the extent of this proliferation of ideas.
Each of these technologies tells a story about a problem that was identified, and a solution created to solve it. This introduction to Virtuoso and Montage is intended to provide readers with context for clearly understanding the problems that Virtuoso and Montage solve and where they fit in the constantly evolving technology landscape.