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10. Using WSL for Enterprise Development

Hayden Barnes1  
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Columbus, GA, USA
 

With the interoperable nature of WSL, you can run your favorite IDE or editor in Windows while keeping the compatibility of running your project inside a real Linux environment. Because WSL 2 uses the Linux kernel, exciting new opportunities are opened such as the ability to run a Kubernetes distribution for developing microservices architecture systems. There is also the enticing ability to use your workstation or laptop’s Graphics Processor (GPU) to accelerate machine learning tasks.

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