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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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20 Obstacles to Scalability
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.
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An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
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Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization
An overview of techniques to speed page loading.
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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Real-Time GPU Audio
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
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Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
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A File System All Its Own
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
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How Fast Is Your Website?
Website performance data has never been more readily available.
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Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.
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The Story of the Teapot in DHTML
It is easy to do amazing things, such as rendering the classic teapot in HTML and CSS.
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Making the Mobile Web Faster
Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.
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Thinking Methodically About Performance
The USE method addresses shortcomings in other commonly used methodologies.
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A Decade of OS Access-Control Extensibility
Open source security foundations for mobile and embedded devices.
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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
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Controlling Queue Delay
Active queue management is just one piece of the solution to persistently full buffers.
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My Compiler Does Not Understand Me
Until our programming languages catch up, code will be full of horrors.
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Real-Time Computer Vision with OpenCV
Mobile computer-vision technology will soon become as ubiquitous as touch interfaces.
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Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
Messages may be retried. Idempotence means that's OK.
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