Standard syllabus
Advanced computer systems · Graduate · CS / Programming
Topics
Kernel and hardware
- Modern OS kernel architectures (monolithic vs microkernel survey)
- Device drivers and interrupt handling
- Virtual memory advanced topics: huge pages, NUMA
- Storage stack: SSDs, journaling, copy-on-write file systems
- Scheduling for multicore and datacenter workloads
Virtualization
- Hypervisors: Type 1 vs Type 2
- Hardware virtualization extensions
- Containers vs VMs tradeoffs
- Live migration and checkpoint/restart
- Resource isolation: cgroups, namespaces deep dive
Pricing
Graduate-level rates are set on consultation. See the pricing page for K–12 and undergraduate rates.