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Does Anybody Listen to You?
How do you step up from mere contributor to real change-maker?
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Uninitialized Reads
Understanding the proposed revisions to the C language.
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Time, but Faster
A computing adventure about time through the looking glass.
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Heterogeneous Computing: Here to Stay
Hardware and software perspectives.
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Research For Practice: Distributed Transactions and Networks as Physical Sensors
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult.
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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
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Faucet: Deploying SDN in the Enterprise
Using OpenFlow and DevOps for rapid development.
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Research For Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Functional at Scale
Applying functional programming principles to distributed computing projects.
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React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript
A discussion with Pete Hunt, Paul O'Shannessy, Dave Smith, and Terry Coatta
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Industrial-Scale Agile: From Craft to Engineering
Essence is instrumental in moving software development toward a true engineering discipline.
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The Power of Babble
Expect to be constantly and pleasantly befuddled.
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Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs
Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.
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Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.
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Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.
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Fresh Starts
Just because you have been doing it the same way doesn't mean you are doing it the right way.
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