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Virtual Memory

... for your running applications. Memory is structured and managed in two different ways; paging and segmentation. Segmentation Segmentation allocates memory for each application into physical memory based on their size.

September 27, 2020

B-Trees vs. LSM Trees

B-Trees Modern databases are typically represented as B-Trees or LSM Trees (Log structured merge trees). B-trees are "tried and true" data structures that are popular in database usage, most notably SQL databases.

March 14, 2018

OS 101

Kernel A kernel is the core software application of the operating system. It is generally not intended to be interacted with from a user-level perspective. Some responsibilities it can handle: Hardware management e.

December 21, 2022