Around a month back I saw the CS75 Lecture on Scalability by David Malan. The write up contains the notes from the same that I wrote while revisiting the lecture.

SFTP is better than FTP - in the latter credentials are also sent as plain text. VPS, on an abstract level, is a slice of the shared hardware with separate... more

The write up summarises the following four research papers in the domain of Operating System design. The papers pertain to the initial advancements in the operating system design comprising of fields - thread management, thread creation, and scheduling across single and multiprocessor CPUs.

Using Continuations to Implement Thread Management and Communication in Operating Systems, SOSO ‘91. Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel... more