What is the ‘realtime’ process priority setting for?

A realtime priority thread can never be pre-empted by timer interrupts and runs at a higher priority than any other thread in the system. As such a CPU bound realtime priority thread can totally ruin a machine. Creating realtime priority threads requires a privilege (SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege) so it can only be done by administrative users. For … Read more

Use cases of the Workflow Engine

I’m biased as well, as I am the main author of StonePath. I have developed workflow applications for the U.S. State Department, the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Demining, several fortune 500 clients, and most recently the Washington DC Public School System. Every time I have seen a ‘workflow engine’ that tried to be the one … Read more

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