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Operating systems for developers. If you compare traditional OSes, the differences shouldn't be that significant for developers. We deploy most apps in the cloud now, where you can choose to host them ...
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A Brief History of Operating Systems
One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...
But millions of lines of code, or even hundreds of thousands, aren’t necessary for building a fully functioning operating system. This one sets up a complete OS in exactly 2000 lines of code .
What is breaking the operating system, and making companies like Databricks do weird bolt-ons of Postgres to maintain the state of Spark clusters outside of an operating system, is that the state of ...
For most developers, it means programming at the lowest level in the system, talking directly to and controlling hardware. Device drivers represent a specific type of programming at this level.
Google has unveiled KataOS, an early exploration into a new secure operating system for embedded systems on open-source RISC-V chips. Google's KataOS is written "almost entirely in Rust", the ...