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The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.

January 2014


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The Software Inferno

The Software Inferno

Dante's tale, as experienced by a software architect.


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Unikernels: The Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System

Unikernels

What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?


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Toward Software-Defined SLAs

Toward Software-Defined SLAs

Enterprise computing in the public cloud.