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

November 2016


From Communications of the ACM

Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems

Research For Practice

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.


From Communications of the ACM

The Power of Babble

The Power of Babble

Expect to be constantly and pleasantly befuddled.


From Communications of the ACM

Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs

Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs

Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.