Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
December 2012
From Communications of the ACM
Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
From Communications of the ACM
The Essence of Software Engineering: The SEMAT Kernel
A thinking framework in the form of an actionable kernel.
From Communications of the ACM
Sender-Side Buffers and the Case For Multimedia Adaptation
A proposal to improve the performance and availability of streaming video and other time-sensitive media.