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Crash Consistency
Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
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Low-Latency Distributed Applications in Finance
The finance industry has unique demands for low-latency distributed systems.
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Go Static or Go Home
In the end, dynamic systems are simply less secure.
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Hadoop Superlinear Scalability
The perpetual motion of parallel performance.
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Securing Network Time Protocol
Crackers discover how to use NTP as a weapon for abuse.
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Model-Based Testing: Where Does It Stand?
MBT has positive effects on efficiency and effectiveness, even if it only partially fulfills high expectations.
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Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
And the belief in such a device is harmful.
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Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?
Routing security incidents can still slip past deployed security defenses.
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The Network Is Reliable
An informal survey of real-world communications failures.
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Securing the Tangled Web
Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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