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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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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: Toward a Network of Connected Things
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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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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Research for Practice: Cluster Scheduling for Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.
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Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
Being funny is serious work.
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Monitoring in a DevOps World
Perfect should never be the enemy of better.
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Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
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XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Cardboard surrounds and protects stuff as it crosses boundaries.
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Research For Practice: Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Hootsuite: In Pursuit of Reactive Systems
A discussion with Edward Steel, Yanik Berube, Jonas Bonér, Ken Britton, and Terry Coatta
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