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Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags
Finding and fixing bugs in deployed software is difficult and time-consuming. Here are some alternatives.
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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
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Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
An open standard that enables software-defined networking.
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Extending the Semantics of Scheduling Priorities
Increasing parallelism demands new paradigms.
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Multitier Programming in Hop
A first step toward programming 21st-century applications.
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Controlling Queue Delay
Active queue management is just one piece of the solution to persistently full buffers.
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My Compiler Does Not Understand Me
Until our programming languages catch up, code will be full of horrors.
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Getting What You Measure
There are four common pitfalls to avoid when using software metrics in a project management setting.
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A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.
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Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.
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Real-Time Computer Vision with OpenCV
Mobile computer-vision technology will soon become as ubiquitous as touch interfaces.
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Managing Technical Debt
Shortcuts that save money and time today can cost you down the road.
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Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
Messages may be retried. Idempotence means that's OK.
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Your Mouse Is a Database
Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.
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Why LINQ Matters: Cloud Composability Guaranteed
The benefits of composability are becoming clear in software engineering.
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Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis
A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.
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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History
With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.
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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing
SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.
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Revisiting Network I/O APIs: The Netmap Framework
It is possible to achieve huge performance improvements in the way packet processing is done on modern operating systems.
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