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Research For Practice
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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.

Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
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Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling

Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.

Fresh Starts
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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.

Dynamics of Change
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Dynamics of Change: Why Reactivity Matters

Tame the dynamics of change by centralizing each concern in its own module.

Introducing Research For Practice
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Introducing Research For Practice

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
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Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem

When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.

10 Optimizations on Linear Search
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10 Optimizations on Linear Search

The operations side of the story.

Debugging Distributed Systems
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Debugging Distributed Systems

ShiViz is a new distributed system debugging visualization tool.

The Singular Success of SQL
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The Singular Success of SQL

SQL has a brilliant future as a major figure in the pantheon of data representations.

The Hidden Dividends of Microservices
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The Hidden Dividends of Microservices

Microservices aren't for every company, and the journey isn't easy.

Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?
From Communications of the ACM

Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?

The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.

The Small Batches Principle
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The Small Batches Principle

Reducing waste, encouraging experimentation, and making everyone happy.

Statistics For Engineers
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Statistics For Engineers

Applying statistical techniques to operations data.

Nine Things I Didn't Know I Would Learn Being an Engineer Manager
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Nine Things I Didn't Know I Would Learn Being an Engineer Manager

Many of the skills aren't technical at all.

The Flame Graph
From Communications of the ACM

The Flame Graph

This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging.

Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants
From Communications of the ACM

Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants

Farsighted physicists of yore were danged smart!

Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes
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Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes

Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.

Delegation as Art
From Communications of the ACM

Delegation as Art

Be someone who makes everyone else better.

Use-Case 2.0
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Use-Case 2.0

The hub of software development.

More Encryption Means Less Privacy
From Communications of the ACM

More Encryption Means Less Privacy

Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.
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