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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
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Research for Practice: Troubling Trends in Machine-Learning Scholarship
Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research.
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Achieving Digital Permanence
The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.
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Online Event Processing
Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.
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Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling
Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.
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CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
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SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.
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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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Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.
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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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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
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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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Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
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Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me
A look at JavaScript libraries in the wild.
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