Benjamin is a business consultant, coach, designer, musician, artist, and writer, living in the remote mountains of Vermont. He has 20+ years experience in tech, an educational background in the arts, ...

As we see this through Daniel’s eyes, implementation details regarding addressing often reveal fundamental design constraints ...

A fundamental overview of operating systems (OSes) with an emphasis on practice. Topics covered include: OS structure, OS models, OS abstractions, concurrency sources, concurrency challenges, ...

ARM and clone-core supplier Picoturbo have tweaked their chip architectures to get more handheld computer operating systems onboard and improve the speed of virtual memory operating systems such as ...

I was struck by Alex’s article on software development using virtual machines. His tl;dr conclusion was that “using a VM to develop software has a lot of advantages, but it is not quite ready for ...

WTF?! Now you can bypass your hard drive and store your whole operating system in your VRAM (should you want to). Well-known Windows modder NTDEV has demonstrated how, and it's surprisingly painless.

The key reason for using an RTOS is determinism, which typically means precise management or time and space resources. Unfortunately, many problems require more complex solutions, including virtual ...

Having already provided developers with virtual machines (VM) and containers, enterprise computing has now rolled out serverless programming (Fig. 1). This migration takes advantage of the growth in ...

Debugging the software in a complex real-time system is particularly challenging because the manifestation of a bug is frequently far removed from the actual occurrence of the bug-in both time and ...