UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency, and Threads is the successor to the 1995 Practical UNIX Programming: A Guide to Communication, Concurrency, and Multithreading. This updated ...
On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...
With the increasing use of multicore CPUs in computers, programmers have to learn new techniques for parallel processing. One very promising approach is transactional memory. The primary problem for ...
SAN MATEO, Calif. &#151 How many programming threads can you pack into the guts of a network processor? As many as 256, according to Mario Nemirovsky, a pioneer in the technique of simultaneous ...
As may be obvious from some other threads, I've been delving down into the embedded programming world, and playing with small devices, programmed in C, that don't have much memory. I've become ...