Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
September 2013
From Communications of the ACM
An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
From Communications of the ACM
The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
From Communications of the ACM
20 Obstacles to Scalability
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.