Sockets provide an interface into the kernel’s networking protocols by allowing programmers to create a communication endpoint in the form of a file descriptor, and by binding a name to the file ...

Browser makers are excited about a new technology called Web Sockets, but some are scrambling after an early version raised a security problem. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Not every workload can be chunked up and spread across a relatively loosely coupled cluster of cheap X86 server nodes. Some really do much better running on a big, wonking, shared memory system. In ...