All Things Distributed

MAY 10, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Using continuations to implement thread management and communication in operating systems. By Werner Vogels on 10 May 2013 09:30 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have returned from a great series of AWS Summits in NYC and in Europe so it is time to get back to some weekend reading.

Operating System 73

Operating System AWS Systems Scalability 73

O'Reilly Software

MAY 6, 2013

The other day I was thinking about the function for performing dynamic memory allocation in the C standard library, malloc. From the manual pages, If successful, the malloc() function returns a pointer to allocated memory. If there is an error, it returns a NULL pointer and sets errno to ENOMEM. One of the most common errors when using malloc is not checking for allocation failure.

C++ 40

C++ Programming Performance 40

Tim Kadlec

MAY 5, 2013

A week from now I’ll be on a plane heading to Amsterdam for the excellent Mobilism conference. This is year three for them, and you only need to take one look at this year’s program to see just how incredible the event is going to be. The lineup is full of great speakers with fantastic topics to discuss! Just as impressive is the list of attendees —there’s sure to be some great discussions with a group like this all in one place.

Mobile 40

Mobile Programming Availability Performance 40