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WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform
What was once a way to bring audio and video to the Web has expanded into more use cases than we could ever imagine.
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Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up
A discussion with Theo Schlossnagle, Justin Sheehy, and Chris McCubbin.
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The SPACE of Developer Productivity
There's more to it than you think.
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
The evolution of tricky user interfaces.
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.
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Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination
Controlling coordination costs when multiple, distributed perspectives are essential.
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Cognitive Work of Hypothesis Exploration During Anomaly Response
A look at how we respond to the unexpected.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Space Time Discontinuum
Combining data from many sources may cause painful delays.
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Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration
The trade-offs between write and read.
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The Effects of Mixing Machine Learning and Human Judgment
Collaboration between humans and machines does not necessarily lead to better outcomes.
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DAML: The Contract Language of Distributed Ledgers
A discussion between Shaul Kfir and Camille Fournier.
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Industry-Scale Knowledge Graphs: Lessons and Challenges
Five diverse technology companies show how it's done.
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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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