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

May 2019


From Communications of the ACM

Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling

Net Neutrality

Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.


From Communications of the ACM

Online Event Processing

Online Event Processing

Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.


From Communications of the ACM

Achieving Digital Permanence

Achieving Digital Permanence

The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.