On paper, large organizations appear orderly. Org charts are symmetrical, strategies flow downward, and metrics suggest ...

Lauded for avoiding the typical vague, high-level survey approach found in many texts, earlier editions of this bestselling book removed the mystery by explaining the internal structure of an ...

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 ...

Abstractions are the keystone of the dynamic ecosystem of information and communication technology. You can think of them as allowing you to drive a car without understanding how the engine or ...

Today’s operating systems are more sophisticated and feature-rich than ever before, which makes them substantially more useful to the enterprise but also adds to security vulnerability—unless the ...

A traditional operating system (OS) such as Windows, macOS and Linux facilitates user interaction with hardware through a graphical user interface and manages tasks like memory allocation and process ...

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 ...

The world of computing has long been governed by traditional operating systems like Windows, Linux and Unix. These platforms form the backbone of how we interact with computers, enabling software to ...

Even with all of the advances in IT, whether it’s modular hardware, massive cloud computing resources, or small-form-factor edge devices, IT still has a scale problem. Not physically—it’s easy to add ...