Coding Relic

I currently work in a relatively large development team. As is the case with every team of that size, we are organized as one enormous group...

Fiber optic strands have a central core of material with a high refractive index surrounded by a jacket of material with a slightly lower ...

The ARM architecture dominates mobile computing. It is used in all popular mobile phones and in a huge percentage of battery powered device...

Continuing investigation into JIT compilation for virtual machines , today we will delve into some of the plumbing. libjit is a library for...

Virtual Machine architectures are a fascinating topic, and one that I plan to occasionally explore in this space. Not virtual machines in t...

Yesterday Louis Gray pieced together vague snippets of information from tweets made by the founders and investors of Foursquare and Brizzl...

There is an urban legend that Eskimos have many different words for snow. The truth is the Aleut languages have about as many words for sno...

Every handful of years we ratchet up the Ethernet link speed: from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps in the early 1990s, to 1 Gbps in the mid 1990s, to 10...

March 24, 2010 is Ada Lovelace day, an informal holiday to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. I'd like to s...

Have you heard any variation of this claim? We don't need our own integrity check. The TCP checksum is pretty weak, but Ethernet uses ...

In 2007 AMD implemented an I/O MMU in their system architecture, which translates DMA addresses from peripheral devices to a different add...

ASIC design is all about juggling multiple competing requirements. You want to make the chip competitive by increasing its capabilities, by ...

"Soft Error" is a euphemism in the semiconductor industry for "the silicon did the wrong thing." Soft errors can occur w...

Crossing the Chasm is a seminal book in technology marketing, whose ideas quickly spread through the industry. Originally written in 1991 b...

The Pragmatic Programmer is one of the best books available concerning the development of quality software. It is structured as a series of...