I've got a problem that I've spent quite a bit of time on, though I'm not an expert at NFS. In summary, operations that require meta-data changes (such as file/directory creations/deletions), perform ...

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The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion—the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the health and economy of the world. The higher-ed landscape has seen a significant impact, as instructors are overwhelmingly utilizing remote conferencing services ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Is “async” — asynchronous work — anything more than a buzzword? After all, email, the ultimate async tool, has been the most popular form ...

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Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...

Synchronous communication relies on two parties being available at exactly the same time. Synchronous communication methods, such as meetings, telephone or Zoom calls, must be arranged. Both parties ...

I just got a bomb dropped on me and I turn to the hive mind to confirm that what I think I know is correct Management wants costs (within the next 2 weeks) on a distributed data center architecture ...