Picking Platforms

Chapter 11 is about picking the platforms needed for successful virtual coaching. The authors first define the types of interactions that need to occur virtually including asynchronous, synchronous, and file management. Included is a table that offers examples of each type of interaction organized within each of the VECTOR phases. The authors then include a section that highlights the technology use habits of successful virtual coaches and practical checklists to support reader implementation and use of suggested tips and strategies.

DBOS

This paper lays out the rationale for building a completely new operating system (OS) stack. Rather than build on a single node OS together with separate cluster schedulers, distributed filesystems, and network managers, we argue that a distributed transactional DBMS should be the basis for a scalable cluster OS. We show herein that such a database OS (DBOS) can do scheduling, file management, and inter-process communication with competitive performance to existing systems. In addition, significantly better analytics can be provided as well as a dramatic reduction in code complexity through implementing OS services as standard database queries, while implementing low-latency transactions and high availability only once.