A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

This repository contains the Beacon Object File Visual Studio (BOF-VS) template project. You can read more about rationale and design decisions from this blog post. The Debug target builds your BOF to ...

While this is a laudable principle, last minute changes of requirements or code made to correct problems identified during test tend to put such ideals in disarray. Many projects fall into a pattern ...