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

November 2015


From Communications of the ACM

Fail at Scale

Fail at Scale

Reliability in the face of rapid change


From Communications of the ACM

It Probably Works

It Probably Works

Probabilistic algorithms are all around us. Not only are they acceptable, some programmers actually seek out chances to use them.


From Communications of the ACM

Componentizing the Web

Componentizing the Web

We may be on the cusp of a new revolution in Web development.