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Revealing the Critical Role of Human Performance in Software
It's time to appreciate the human side of Internet-facing software systems.
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Above the Line, Below the Line
The resilience of Internet-facing systems relies on what is above the line of representation.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Blockchain Technology: What Is It Good For?
Industry's dreams and fears for this new technology.
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Space Time Discontinuum
Combining data from many sources may cause painful delays.
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Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration
The trade-offs between write and read.
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Surviving Software Dependencies
Software reuse is finally here but comes with risks.
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Research for Practice: The DevOps Phenomenon
An executive crash course.
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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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Garbage Collection as a Joint Venture
A collaborative approach to reclaiming memory in heterogeneous software systems.
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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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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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Identity by Any Other Name
The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.
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Metrics That Matter
Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.
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