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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision

Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.

The API Performance Contract
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The API Performance Contract

How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?

Provenance in Sensor Data Management
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management

A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.

Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2.0
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Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2.0

HTTP continues to evolve.

The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features

Design requirements of nonblocking systems.

Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization
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Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization

An overview of techniques to speed page loading.

There Is No Getting Around It
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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.

Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
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Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure

Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.

A File System All Its Own
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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.

How Fast Is Your Website?
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How Fast Is Your Website?

Website performance data has never been more readily available.

FPGA Programming For the Masses
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FPGA Programming For the Masses

The programmability of FPGAs must improve if they are to be part of mainstream computing.

Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics
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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.

Making the Mobile Web Faster
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Making the Mobile Web Faster

Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.

Thinking Methodically About Performance
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Thinking Methodically About Performance

The USE method addresses shortcomings in other commonly used methodologies.

A Decade of OS Access-Control Extensibility
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A Decade of OS Access-Control Extensibility

Open source security foundations for mobile and embedded devices.

Sender-Side Buffers and the Case For Multimedia Adaptation
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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.

Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
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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.

Toward Higher Precision
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Toward Higher Precision

An introduction to PTP and its significance to NTP practitioners.

Fault Injection in Production
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Fault Injection in Production

Making the case for resilience testing.

All Your Database Are Belong To Us
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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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