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building-automation
building management system
BACnet
System
Techniques · 23
Primitives · 70
building-automation
Deterministic simulation testing
distributed · medium: Run the whole system in one thread under a seeded scheduler with simulated network, disk and clock, so every failure replays from its seed.
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Primary-backup replication
distributed · medium: One node orders all writes and ships them to standbys; the acknowledgement rule (none, one, all) sets what a crash loses, and an external arbiter decides who takes over.
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Alarm management
embedded · medium: Turn raw process limits into a few actionable operator alarms with delay, deadband, acknowledge and shelving states, plus flood measurement.
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Industrial network segmentation
embedded · medium: Zones and conduits (IEC 62443/Purdue) with firewalls and protocol allow-lists for OT
Plc scan cycle
embedded · medium: Cyclic read-inputs, execute-logic, write-outputs execution with IEC 61131-3 programs
Model predictive control
robotics · medium: Each tick, solve a small optimization over a predicted horizon, apply only the first input, repeat. Handles constraints and multiple inputs that a PID loop cannot.
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Coverage-guided fuzzing
security · medium: Mutate inputs, run an instrumented target, and keep any input that reaches a new code edge; feedback turns blind guessing into incremental search.
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Publish subscribe event bus
systems · low: In-process or on-box topic bus decoupling producers and consumers with bounded queues
Swinging door compression
compression · low: Deadband and swinging-door trending compression for process historians
Hdr histogram
data-structures · low: Log-linear bucketed histograms with bounded relative error for latency percentiles
Bacnet protocol
embedded · low: BACnet objects, properties and services over IP/MSTP for building automation
Modbus protocol
embedded · low: Modbus RTU/TCP registers and function codes with polling and CRC
Process supervision
hardware-os · low: A parent process starts services, reaps their exits and restarts them under a delay and burst-limit policy, then stops them with SIGTERM before SIGKILL.
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PID controller
robotics · low: Drive a measured value to a setpoint with three terms on the error: proportional, integral, derivative. The default feedback loop for motors, heaters, drones and gimbals.
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Mutual TLS
security · low: TLS where the client also proves a certificate key, so every connection carries a verified, rotatable machine identity.
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Graceful draining
systems · low: On a termination signal, stop taking new work, finish in-flight work until a deadline, tell clients to reconnect elsewhere, then exit; clients resume from a token.
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Cooperative scheduling
concurrency · low: Green threads/coroutines yielding at await points on a user-space scheduler
Record replay
distributed · low: Record every nondeterministic input (time, randomness, I/O, model and tool outputs, per-tick player input) and re-execute deterministically for debugging, replays and state rebuild
PRNGs (PCG, xoshiro)
numerics · low: Small, fast, statistically strong non-cryptographic generators: PCG32 and xoshiro256**, with seeding, parallel streams and unbiased ranges.
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Leases
distributed · low: A lock that expires on its own: bounded-time ownership that survives crashes and partitions, given bounded clock drift and fencing tokens on writes.
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Write-ahead log
storage · low: Append each change to a checksummed sequential log and fsync it before touching data pages; the basis of crash durability in nearly every database.
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Health checking
systems · low: Decide per backend whether to route to it using probes and real-traffic errors, with consecutive-count hysteresis, capped ejection and a panic fallback.
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Debouncing throttling
systems · low: Coalescing rapid events: debounce (wait for quiet), throttle (max rate), and cancelling stale in-flight requests
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System
Techniques · 23
Primitives · 70
building-automation
Deterministic simulation testing
distributed · medium: Run the whole system in one thread under a seeded scheduler with simulated network, disk and clock, so every failure replays from its seed.
›
Primary-backup replication
distributed · medium: One node orders all writes and ships them to standbys; the acknowledgement rule (none, one, all) sets what a crash loses, and an external arbiter decides who takes over.
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Alarm management
embedded · medium: Turn raw process limits into a few actionable operator alarms with delay, deadband, acknowledge and shelving states, plus flood measurement.
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Industrial network segmentation
embedded · medium: Zones and conduits (IEC 62443/Purdue) with firewalls and protocol allow-lists for OT
Plc scan cycle
embedded · medium: Cyclic read-inputs, execute-logic, write-outputs execution with IEC 61131-3 programs
Model predictive control
robotics · medium: Each tick, solve a small optimization over a predicted horizon, apply only the first input, repeat. Handles constraints and multiple inputs that a PID loop cannot.
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Coverage-guided fuzzing
security · medium: Mutate inputs, run an instrumented target, and keep any input that reaches a new code edge; feedback turns blind guessing into incremental search.
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TLS 1.3
security · medium: The standard encrypted, authenticated transport; one round trip, only forward-secret AEAD suites, and little left to misconfigure.
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Time-series anomaly detection
statistics · medium: Predict the expected value from a seasonal baseline, scale the residual by a robust spread (MAD), threshold at a chosen false-alarm rate, then merge flags into incidents.
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Point-in-time recovery
storage · medium: Periodic base backups plus a continuously archived change log let you rebuild the state as of any instant, then branch from there.
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Event condition action rules
systems · medium: Event-condition-action rule engines for automations, edit checks and alerts
Recurrence rule expansion
systems · medium: Expand an RFC 5545 RRULE lazily, in local wall-clock time, into concrete instants; store the rule, materialise only a bounded horizon.
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Delta debugging
compilers · medium: Ddmin minimization of failing inputs or change sets
Fault injection
distributed · medium: Inject latency, errors, kills and partitions via proxies, netem or hooks
Packet classification
networking · medium: Multi-field rule matching (tuple space search, decision trees) and flow caches
Quadratic programming
optimization · medium: Convex QP solvers (active-set, interior-point, ADMM) for constrained optimization
ARIES recovery
storage · medium: Three-pass crash recovery (analysis, redo, undo) for steal/no-force buffer pools; repeats history, then rolls back losers with compensation log records.
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Interior-point method (primal-dual,…
optimization · medium: Follows the central path with Newton steps on the perturbed KKT system, one sparse Cholesky per iteration; Mehrotra's predictor-corrector makes it fast.
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Syscall interception
security · medium: Intercept syscalls via ptrace, seccomp user notify or a user-space kernel
Buffer pool
storage · medium: The database's own page cache (frames, page table, pin counts, dirty bits, replacement) so it, not the OS, controls eviction, write order and I/O.
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Sparse direct solver
numerics · medium: Solve sparse Ax = b exactly by reordering, symbolic analysis, numeric LLᵀ/LU and triangular solves; fill-in, not flops per entry, decides the cost.
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Fill-reducing ordering
numerics · medium: Permute a sparse symmetric matrix before Cholesky/LU so the factor has few new nonzeros; minimum degree, nested dissection and RCM trade quality, speed and parallelism.
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Graph partitioning
graphs · medium: Split a graph into k balanced parts with few edges between them; multilevel coarsen-partition-refine (METIS, KaHIP) for quality, streaming heuristics (LDG, Fennel) for one-pass scale.
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Publish subscribe event bus
systems · low: In-process or on-box topic bus decoupling producers and consumers with bounded queues
Swinging door compression
compression · low: Deadband and swinging-door trending compression for process historians
Hdr histogram
data-structures · low: Log-linear bucketed histograms with bounded relative error for latency percentiles
Bacnet protocol
embedded · low: BACnet objects, properties and services over IP/MSTP for building automation
Modbus protocol
embedded · low: Modbus RTU/TCP registers and function codes with polling and CRC
Process supervision
hardware-os · low: A parent process starts services, reaps their exits and restarts them under a delay and burst-limit policy, then stops them with SIGTERM before SIGKILL.
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PID controller
robotics · low: Drive a measured value to a setpoint with three terms on the error: proportional, integral, derivative. The default feedback loop for motors, heaters, drones and gimbals.
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Mutual TLS
security · low: TLS where the client also proves a certificate key, so every connection carries a verified, rotatable machine identity.
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Graceful draining
systems · low: On a termination signal, stop taking new work, finish in-flight work until a deadline, tell clients to reconnect elsewhere, then exit; clients resume from a token.
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Cooperative scheduling
concurrency · low: Green threads/coroutines yielding at await points on a user-space scheduler
Record replay
distributed · low: Record every nondeterministic input (time, randomness, I/O, model and tool outputs, per-tick player input) and re-execute deterministically for debugging, replays and state rebuild
PRNGs (PCG, xoshiro)
numerics · low: Small, fast, statistically strong non-cryptographic generators: PCG32 and xoshiro256**, with seeding, parallel streams and unbiased ranges.
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Leases
distributed · low: A lock that expires on its own: bounded-time ownership that survives crashes and partitions, given bounded clock drift and fencing tokens on writes.
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Write-ahead log
storage · low: Append each change to a checksummed sequential log and fsync it before touching data pages; the basis of crash durability in nearly every database.
›
Health checking
systems · low: Decide per backend whether to route to it using probes and real-traffic errors, with consecutive-count hysteresis, capped ejection and a panic fallback.
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Debouncing throttling
systems · low: Coalescing rapid events: debounce (wait for quiet), throttle (max rate), and cancelling stale in-flight requests
Hierarchical state machine
systems · low: Nest states so a substate inherits its parent's reactions and only overrides what differs, with ordered entry and exit actions along the path.
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Data diode unidirectional transfer
embedded · low: One-way network transfer with FEC and no back channel between safety and IT zones
Deep packet inspection
networking · low: Classify flows by payload/SNI/protocol signatures for application-aware policy
Fixed-rate control loop
embedded · low: Run a controller at an exact period using absolute deadlines and a fixed dt, so jitter never accumulates and the math stays valid.
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Real time fieldbus
embedded · low: Deterministic cyclic fieldbuses (EtherCAT, PROFINET IRT): on-the-fly frames, distributed clocks
Watchdog timer
embedded · low: A hardware down-counter that resets the chip unless software proves, in time and in a plausible pattern, that it is still healthy.
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Runge-Kutta 4
numerics · low: The classic four-stage, fourth-order ODE step; error drops 16× when the step halves, with no derivatives or past steps needed.
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Kalman filter
robotics · low: Optimal recursive estimator for a linear system with Gaussian noise: fuses a motion model with noisy measurements into a state estimate plus its covariance.
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Code coverage instrumentation
compilers · low: Insert counters into compiled code to record which blocks, edges or lines ran; a spanning tree of the control-flow graph cuts the counters needed.
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Fast hash functions
data-structures · low: Non-cryptographic hashes built from 64×64→128-bit multiplies and xor-shifts; pick by key size, trust level and whether the hash is persisted.
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Sanitizers
security · low: ASan/UBSan/TSan shadow memory and instrumentation to catch memory bugs
AEAD (AES-GCM, ChaCha20-Poly1305)
security · low: Authenticated encryption that encrypts and detects tampering in one call; the only kind of symmetric encryption you should use.
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Cryptographic hashes (SHA-2, BLAKE3)
security · low: Collision-resistant fingerprints of data; SHA-256 for interoperability, BLAKE3 for speed, HMAC/HKDF for keyed uses.
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ECDH key exchange (X25519, P-256)
security · low: Each side multiplies the other's public curve point by its own scalar and both get the same point; always validate the peer key and run the result through a KDF.
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HKDF key derivation (extract-and-ex…
security · low: HMAC-based two-step key derivation: extract a uniform pseudorandom key from any secret, then expand it into as many context-bound keys as you need.
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X509 certificates
security · low: Certificate chains, path validation, SANs, revocation and short-lived issuance
Isolation forest
machine-learning · low: Score each record by how few random axis-aligned splits it takes to isolate it in a small forest of random trees; anomalies are few and different, so they isolate fast.
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Exponential smoothing (ETS, Holt-Wi…
statistics · low: Forecast by keeping a few running states (level, trend, seasonal) updated by a fraction of each forecast error; O(1) memory per series and a strong baseline.
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Robust statistics
statistics · low: Location and scale estimates (median, MAD, trimmed mean, Huber M-estimator) that stay correct when a minority of the data is garbage.
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STL decomposition (seasonal-trend w…
statistics · low: Split a series into trend, seasonal and remainder with iterated loess smoothing; the seasonal shape may drift and robust weights keep outliers out of it.
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Object storage
cloud · low: S3-compatible blob storage at cents per GB-month with 11 nines durability; pick by egress price, request price and latency, not by storage price alone.
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Copy on write snapshots
storage · low: Point-in-time snapshots by sharing pages/extents and copying only on write
Recursive-descent parsing
compilers · low: Hand-written top-down parser with one function per grammar rule; simple, fast, with full control over error messages and recovery.
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Hierarchical timing wheel
systems · low: Timers bucketed by expiry into wheels of slots, coarser wheels for far deadlines: O(1) insert and cancel for millions of timeouts.
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Icalendar format
storage · low: ICalendar (RFC 5545) objects, VTIMEZONE and iTIP scheduling messages
Calendar date arithmetic
systems · low: Civil dates, time zones (tzdb), DST gaps, month-end anchoring and duration math
Failure bisection
search-sort · low: Binary search over commits, batches or inputs to isolate a failure
Transparent interception
networking · low: Redirect traffic to a local proxy (iptables TPROXY/REDIRECT, eBPF) without app changes
Interval tree
data-structures · low: Index of ranges that answers "which intervals overlap this point or range?" in O(log n + k); static sorted-array form is the compact, cache-friendly choice.
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Swiss table
data-structures · low: Open-addressing hash table that filters 8-16 slots at once with 1-byte hash tags and SIMD, giving fast lookups at 87.5 % load.
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Packet header parsing
networking · low: Parse graph state machines for Ethernet, IP, TCP and UDP headers in hardware and software
Tcam ternary matching
networking · low: TCAM ternary match tables: priorities, range expansion, power and capacity trade-offs
LRU and CLOCK
systems · low: LRU evicts the least recently used entry via hash map plus linked list; CLOCK approximates it with a reference bit, so hits take no lock.
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LU and Cholesky factorization
numerics · low: Factor A = PLU (any square matrix, partial pivoting) or A = LLᵀ (SPD) once in O(n³), then solve each right-hand side in O(n²).
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Sparse matrices (CSR)
numerics · low: Compressed sparse row stores only nonzeros as row pointers, column indices and values; SpMV streams them once, so it is memory-bandwidth bound.
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Newton root finding
numerics · low: Linearize at the guess and jump to the tangent root; quadratic convergence near a simple root, made robust by brackets (1D) or line search.
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Ebpf
hardware-os · low: Verified in-kernel programs on hooks (kprobes, XDP, tc) with maps
Ptrace process control
hardware-os · low: Ptrace: attach, read and write registers and memory, single-step, intercept signals
Seccomp bpf
security · low: Syscall filtering with seccomp BPF programs
fsync, O_DSYNC and O_DIRECT
hardware-os · low: What fsync, fdatasync, O_DSYNC, O_DIRECT and F_FULLFSYNC really guarantee on Linux and macOS, and the exact call sequences for crash-safe files.
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S3-FIFO
systems · low: Three FIFO queues (small, main, ghost) that evict one-hit wonders quickly and keep reused objects; low miss ratios with no list moves on hits.
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d-ary heap
data-structures · low: Array heap with d children per node (d = 4 typical): half the binary heap's depth, siblings in one cache line, faster priority queues.
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Control-flow graph
compilers · low: Split a linear instruction list into basic blocks and connect them by jumps; the graph every optimizer, SSA builder and dataflow pass walks.
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Fencing tokens
distributed · low: A number that grows with every lock grant and is checked by the protected resource, so a paused ex-holder's late write is rejected.
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Dma transfers
embedded · low: DMA controllers: descriptors, circular buffers, cache coherence for zero-CPU data movement
PWM generation
embedded · low: A timer's counter, period and compare registers draw the pulse train; preload, dead time and DMA make duty changes glitch-free, shoot-through-free and cheap.
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BFS and DFS
graphs · low: The two basic graph traversals; BFS gives hop distances and levels, DFS gives discovery/finish order for cycles, components and topological order.
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Minimum spanning tree
graphs · low: Cheapest set of edges connecting all vertices; Kruskal sorts edges and joins components with union-find, Prim grows one tree, Boruvka merges in parallel rounds.
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Union-find
graphs · low: Disjoint-set forest with union by size and path compression; merges sets and answers same-set queries in effectively constant time.
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CRC32C checksums
hardware-os · low: The Castagnoli CRC-32 with dedicated instructions on x86 (SSE4.2) and ARMv8. It is the standard fast integrity check for storage blocks, logs and network frames.
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SIMD programming
hardware-os · low: Process 4-16 lanes per instruction with AVX2, AVX-512 or NEON via Rust std::arch, with runtime dispatch and a portable fallback.
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Constant time code
security · low: Writing secret-dependent code without branches or memory lookups on secrets; constant-time compare and select
Csprng
security · low: OS-backed cryptographically secure random numbers (getrandom), and when a fast PRNG is not enough
Slab allocator
systems · low: Pre-carve pages into equal-size slots per size class with an in-place free list: O(1) alloc and free, no external fragmentation, cache-warm reuse.
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