In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

At the annual Microsoft TechFest event—which began today at the company's headquarters in Redmond—Microsoft's senior vice president of research, Rich Rashid, announced that the source code of the ...

The multitasking myth, or the idea that people can effectively split their attention between two tasks, was busted long ago. Cognitive science has taught us that the human brain just isn’t capable of ...

Ironically, the speed and efficiency technology brings to most professionals’ workdays can lead to slowdowns for engineering teams in the form of heavy workloads, rapidly accumulated technical debt ...