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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?
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You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
Long considered an afterthought, software maintenance is easiest and most effective when built into a system from the ground up.
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Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
MonALISA developers describe how it works, the key design principles behind it, and the biggest technical challenges in building it.
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Reveling in Constraints
The Google Web Toolkit is an end-run around Web development obstacles.
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CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
The age of cloud computing has begun. How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities it provides?
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The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later
Revisiting Gray and Putzolu's famous rule in the age of Flash.
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Whither Sockets?
The pervasive and long-lasting sockets API has remained largely unchanged since 1982. How have developers worked around its inherent limitations and what is the...
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Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
New drive technologies and increased capacities create new categories of failure modes that will influence system designs.
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Debugging AJAX in Production
Lacking proper browser support, what steps can we take to debug production AJAX code?
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API Design Matters
It is very easy to create a bad API and rather difficult to create a good one. Recent APIs implemented in modern programming languages make the same mistakes as...
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ORM in Dynamic Languages
Dynamic languages offer a taste of object-relational mapping that eases application code.
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Purpose-Built Languages
The ecosystem of purpose-built languages is a key part of systems development.
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Erlang For Concurrent Programming
Designed for concurrency from the ground up, the Erlang language can be a valuable tool to help solve concurrent problems.
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Better Scripts, Better Games
Smarter, more powerful scripting languages will improve game performance while making gameplay development more efficient.
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Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory
While still primarily a research project, transactional memory shows promise for making parallel programming easier.
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High-Performance Web Sites
Want to make your Web site fly? Focus on frontend performance.
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CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
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Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?
The promise of STM may likely be undermined by its overheads and workload applicabilities.
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Real-World Concurrency
What does the proliferation of concurrency mean for the software you develop?
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