Communications of the ACM
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Talking Software Obsolescence
An interview with Ross John Anderson, professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge.
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Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
Exploring the event-modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems.
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Software Engineering in Physics Research
A discussion on how physics research scientists use software.
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AI and ML Observability
Andy Dang, head of Engineering at WhyLabs, discusses observability and data ops for AI/ML applications and how that differs from traditional observability.
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Designing to Avoid Worst-Case Outcomes
Interaction designer Jonathan Shariat discusses harmful software design.
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Software Engineering Lessons
Software engineer, consultant, and author Karl Wiegers discusses specific practices based on his 50 years of experience in the industry.
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Testing in Python with pytest
Software engineer discusses the popularity and use of pytest for Python testing.
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25 years with cURL
Founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg discusses looking after cURL and libcurl for the past 25 years.
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Web Scraping
The increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research.
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Understanding Software Dynamics
In an interview, computer architect Richard L. Sites discusses his new book
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Avoiding Defects in C Programming
Computer security specialist details tools and techniques developers can use to write secure code in C
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The Benefits of Rust
An in-depth discussion about the virtue of Rust, its future, and more
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Infrastructure as Code
Helping software developers use code to access more control over cloud infrastructure assets
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Talking Secure Coding
Security expert discusses the importance of secure coding, how to improve adoption, best practices, and more
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L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
How relevant are the fallacies today?
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Improving Code Quality and Penetration Testing With DAST
Dynamic application security testing can provide developers with meaningful feedback loops.
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