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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
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Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
The history of Berkeley DB.
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Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools
Evaluating tool design guidelines with SWAN.
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Static Analysis
The fundamental challenge of software engineering is one of complexity.
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Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)
A user interface for querying provenance.
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Software Development in Disruptive Times
Creating a software solution with fast decision capability, agile project management, and extreme low-code technology.
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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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Application Frameworks
While powerful, frameworks are not for everyone.
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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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A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels
The Amazon CTO sits with Tom Killalea to discuss designing for evolution at scale.
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Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default
A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.
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Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside
Data kept outside SQL has different characteristics from data kept inside.
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Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.
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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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