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Research for Practice: Edge Computing
Scaling resources within multiple administrative domains.
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Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
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Research for Practice: Knowledge Base Construction in the Machine-Learning Era
Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.
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The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
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Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
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Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems
What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?
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Canary Analysis Service
Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.
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Titus: Introducing Containers to the Netflix Cloud
Approaching container adoption in an already cloud-native infrastructure.
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The Calculus of Service Availability
You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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Research For Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts; Hardware For Deep Learning
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Heterogeneous Computing: Here to Stay
Hardware and software perspectives.
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Research For Practice: Distributed Transactions and Networks as Physical Sensors
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?
The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
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Crash Consistency
Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
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