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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.
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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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Hack for Hire
Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.
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API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.
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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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Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
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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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Online Event Processing
Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.
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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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