Inside the Internet of Things - Bryon Moyer Blog
[From the last episode: We looked in more detail at the characteristics of threads.] Last week we ended with a question: we’re talking about threads running at the same time, in parallel, but… if you have only one CPU, how would that even work? That’s totally not a dumb question. […]
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[From the last episode: We took a quick detour to look at the fates of several different IoT services.] In our initial thread discussion, we saw that a thread is, for lack of a better word, a task that a processor can do independently of – and even concurrently with […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at the notion of a computing thread.] Today we take a quick detour from our thread on… threads… to hit a topic we talked about long ago, back when motivating all of the things that should be on your IoT device purchase checklist. One […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at the different ways memory can be organized in different kinds of systems.] Let’s look at a scenario: you run a restaurant, but you’re short on funds to hire people. So you’re your own chief cook and bottle-washer. You do everything, from prep to […]
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[From the last episode: We saw how virtual memory helps resolve the differences between where a compiler thinks things will go in memory and the real memories in a real system.] We’ve talked a lot about memory – different kinds of memory, cache memory, heap memory, memory. Now that we […]
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