Monthly Archives: November 2022

Wardley map in a nutshell

Due to this cool book here: https://medium.com/wardleymaps/on-being-lost-2ef5f05eb1ec a in a nutshell summary. The map shows dimensions relatively to the user a) y-axis: the component value (= value chain), higher = more visible to user b) x-axis: the component maturity. From … Continue reading

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Viable System Model (VSM)

A meta-model describing autonomous organizational structures (=systems) and is a discipline in operation-research (OR). OR as discipline to apply and analyze decision-making improvement. Systems are seen as recursive. Recursion describes the dependency to higher and/or lower systems. Recursion 0 has … Continue reading

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Linux and freedom of inference

Have you seen that the amount of CPU cores is extraordinary increasing. IMHO the reason is quite obvious; a simple way to realise „freedom of inference“. Also in Linux you can assign a process to a dedicated CPU core e.g., … Continue reading

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Design distributed software systems

A short brain dump after having an intense discussion. First, what is a distributed system? We agreed, that two processes which do not share a „self“ controlled scheduler e.g., the Linux „systemd“, can be seen as a distributed system. If … Continue reading

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Thoughts on interrupt driven „OS“

Last week I had a intense discussion on „interrupt driven“, „automotive grade“ and other ferry tails. Let us start with the OS thing. At a minimum it is a while loop performing well defined „management“ task e.g., keeping a controller … Continue reading

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Runtime and determinism

In automotive we are quite triggered by achieving software determinism or in sense of ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level). ASIL is a measurement of integrity, the level of being able to trust given information, for a defined context. Determinism in … Continue reading

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Web Assembly are complementary to Linux container

WebAssembly is a binary or textual pre-compiled format (binary = .wasm, textual = .wat) for portable compilation-target executable basing on varies source programming languages such as ECMA-script, RUST, C(++). A runtime maps the .wasm binary code to the target machine … Continue reading

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