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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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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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Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.
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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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FPGA Programming For the Masses
The programmability of FPGAs must improve if they are to be part of mainstream computing.
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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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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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Sender-Side Buffers and the Case For Multimedia Adaptation
A proposal to improve the performance and availability of streaming video and other time-sensitive media.
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Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
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Toward Higher Precision
An introduction to PTP and its significance to NTP practitioners.
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Fault Injection in Production
Making the case for resilience testing.
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