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Toward Confidential Cloud Computing
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Toward Confidential Cloud Computing

Extending hardware-enforced cryptographic protection to data while in use.

Battery Day
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Battery Day

A closer look at the technology that makes portable electronics possible.

Everything VPN Is New Again
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Everything VPN Is New Again

The 24-year-old security model has found a second wind.

A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels
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A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels

The Amazon CTO sits with Tom Killalea to discuss designing for evolution at scale.

Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing

From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.

Differential Privacy
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Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default

A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta

The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs

Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.

The Die is Cast
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The Die is Cast

Hardware security is not assured.

The Life of a Data Byte
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The Life of a Data Byte

Be kind and rewind.

Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside
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Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside

Data kept outside SQL has different characteristics from data kept inside.

The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs

Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.

Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
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Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems

How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.

Dark Patterns
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future

The evolution of tricky user interfaces.

Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?

A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.

To Catch a Failure
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To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging

A discussion with Robert O'Callahan, Kyle Huey, Devon O'Dell, and Terry Coatta.

Power to the People
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Power to the People

Reducing datacenter carbon footprints.

The Best Place to Build a Subway
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The Best Place to Build a Subway

Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.

Demystifying Stablecoins
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Demystifying Stablecoins

Cryptography meets monetary policy.

Commit to Memory
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Commit to Memory

Chipping away at Moore's Law.

Beyond the 'Fix-It' Treadmill
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Beyond the 'Fix-It' Treadmill

The use of post-incident artifacts in high-performing organizations.
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