The purpose of this book is to make analytic, simulation and instrumentation based modeling and performance evaluation of database and computer systems components possible and understandable to a ...

The service interface library functions presented in the previous chapter exemplify the functionality and operation of the channel access layer. The next step is evaluating the responsibility and ...

Real-time and embedded systems operate in constrained environments in which memory and processing power are limited. They must provide their services within strict time deadlines to their users and to ...

Hang around enterprise computing types long enough, and you’ll wind up talking about “the stack” at some point. It’s a term used to refer to the complicated layers of software that run in modern data ...

Developers talk a lot about “immutability.” Outside the technical world, it usually means something negative: unmoving, inflexible, and entrenched. However, in the technical field, these features ...