Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
January 2009
From Communications of the ACM
Eventually Consistent
Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability.
From Communications of the ACM
The Long Road to 64 Bits
The sometimes contentious development of 64-bit systems shows how technology decisions can have unexpected, enduring consequences.