kernel architecture

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Your Linux Container Is Not as Isolated as You Think

Containers don’t provide hardware isolation. Learn how Linux namespaces, cgroups, and the shared kernel shape container security in production systems.

Vishnu Santhosh 4 min read Feb 22

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The Useful Lie Behind Linux Plug-and-Play

Plug-and-play in Linux wasn’t a hardware breakthrough.It was an abstraction decision.

4 min read Jan 25

kernel architecture

Deferred Probing in the Linux Kernel Core

A dd.c – Centric View of how deferred probing happen in Linux Kernel

5 min read Jan 18

kernel architecture

Linux Concurrency-Managed Workqueues: Why the Kernel Had to Learn to Wait

Why did Linux replace tasklets with concurrency-managed workqueues? Learn how CMWQ solved kernel scalability, dynamic concurrency, and interrupt deferral — with architecture-level insight.

5 min read Jan 11