Articles tagged “operating system”

Mar 6, 2021operating system

Quorum Consensus

How quorum consensus balances consistency and availability in distributed systems through configurable read and write quorums.

Jan 25, 2021operating system

The necessary conditions for deadlock, how deadlocks differ from livelocks and starvation, and practical strategies for prevention.

Jan 13, 2021operating system

A comparison of Mesa and Hoare monitor semantics, condition variables, and the synchronization guarantees each model provides.

Dec 31, 2020multithreading

How operating systems implement and model kernel threads, user threads, and hybrid threading approaches, with their core tradeoffs.

Dec 30, 2020multithreading

An introduction to thread abstraction, concurrency, process address spaces, execution state, and why operating systems use threads.