I think if there was a dedicated programming section it would get more programming related traffic than this current hybrid forum does. Windows is software, Linux is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are easy to ...

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 ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...