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

August 2018


From Communications of the ACM

Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems

Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems

What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?


From Communications of the ACM

Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems

Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.


From Communications of the ACM

Consistently Eventual

Consistently Eventual

For many data items, the work never settles on a value.