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Agile and SEMAT: Perfect Partners
Combining agile and SEMAT yields more advantages than either one alone.
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Barbarians at the Gateways
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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20 Obstacles to Scalability
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.
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An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
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The Antifragile Organization
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
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Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
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Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization
An overview of techniques to speed page loading.
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Structured Deferral: Synchronization via Procrastination
We simply do not have a synchronization mechanism that can enforce mutual exclusion.
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Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming
Exploring an alternative to lock-based synchronization.
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Proving the Correctness of Nonblocking Data Structures
Nonblocking synchronization can yield astonishing results in terms of scalability and real-time response, but at the expense of verification state space.
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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Real-Time GPU Audio
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
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Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.
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Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
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Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond
How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?
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A File System All Its Own
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
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