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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
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Research For Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?
The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.
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Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes
Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.
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Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
Sometimes all you need is the right language.
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A Purpose-Built Global Network: Google's Move to SDN
A discussion with Amin Vahdat, David Clark, and Jennifer Rexford.
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Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
The "Leftover Principle" requires increasingly more highly skilled humans.
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Immutability Changes Everything
We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
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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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