Developer's black hole


Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.


Real-Time Systems: High level introduction

I've been working with real-time distributed systems for quite some time now. This is one of the topics I like the most. In this post I'd like to spend some time explaining at a high level what real-time systems are, where they're used, some of their requirements and I'd also …


How and When - OpenStack Services Integration

As many of you know, OpenStack's is a fully distributed system. As such, it keeps its services as decoupled as possible and tries to stick to most of the distribution paradigms, deployments strategies and architectures. For example, one of the main tenets throughout OpenStack is that every module should be …