On.System Architecture
System Architecture (and it’s subfield Software Architecture) is a discipline which is surprisingly poorly covered. In a sense, it is still more an art than a science, and usually requires somebody intimately familiar with practical systems, to tell what’s to do and what’s to avoid when building a system.
IT Hares have lots of experience in both Software Architecture and more general System Architecture, and are trying to share their knowledge (and more importantly, their feelings) about them.
Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part III. Basic Ideas
May 9, 2019 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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everything in the system should be a Finite State Machine (FSM)
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‘OS’ is not understood as ‘OS kernel’, but rather is defined by the apps which can run on it
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Read moreBringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part II. Desirable Improvements
April 24, 2019 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~$1 MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)
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last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.
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Read moreBringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part I. Changes in IT Over Last 50 Years
April 15, 2019 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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we’re using operating systems which were designed whopping 40-50 years from now
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Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.
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Read moreCAS (Re)Actor for Non-Blocking Multithreaded Primitives
July 23, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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in 2017, I started to feel that the Dark Ages of mutex-based thread sync were over
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Another issue which almost universally rears its ugly head when speaking about not-so-trivial uses of CAS is the so-called ABA problem.
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