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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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A Primer on Provenance
Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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Major-League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?
Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier.
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Multipath TCP
Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster
A discussion with Kiran Prasad, Kelly Norton, and Terry Coatta.
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Center Wheel For Success
"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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The Software Inferno
Dante's tale, as experienced by a software architect.
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Toward Software-Defined SLAs
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.
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Unikernels: The Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System
What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?
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The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability
Interfacing between languages is becoming more important
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Intermediate Representation
The increasing significance of intermediate representations in compilers.
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