Google has announced Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for Google Cloud Platform's App Engine, the web framework and fully managed cloud computing platform. Cloud Tasks enables asynchronous execution ...

In previous articles, we have looked at the multi-tasking model and we have seen that each task is a quasi-independent program. Although tasks in an embedded application have a degree of independence, ...

Computers are difficult enough to reason about when there’s just a single thread doing one task. There are dozens of cores in today’s modern processor world, and your program might try to take ...