Operating systems and middleware

Max Hailperin's Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction is aimed at upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate students. It rethinks the standard operating systems course around how today's systems actually operate.

The book explains how contemporary operating systems and middleware function and why they are designed the way they are. Along the way, readers build practical abilities: reasoning about and programming concurrent computations, understanding how hardware and software depend on each other, using empirical measurement to inform design decisions, and analyzing system security.