Unix – the Forgotten API

This page is my little outpost on the internet where I will record things about Unix, or specifically its API. Based on recent software developer interviews with people, and observation in general, a lot of the thoughts process about why things are as they are in Unix have been lost to the general day-to-day programmer. This is interesting, because Unix, has clearly won.

Concurrency

Dealing with concurrency in a proper way is essential today.

Things Unix Can Do Atomically

Network Programming

How to get over 10,000 socket connections going on a single unix instance. C10k – the old C10k challenge.

C500k – Urban Airship on EC2

Richard Jones – C1000k !

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