A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

First off, I really don't understand streams. There's the Stream stream, and the MemoryStream stream, FileStream stream and probably a lot more. I understand how they are useful, but cannot really ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...