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 2015
From Communications of the ACM
Disambiguating Databases
Use the database built for your access model.
From Communications of the ACM
Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.
From Communications of the ACM
Internal Access Controls
Trust, but verify.