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Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.
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Monitoring in a DevOps World
Perfect should never be the enemy of better.
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Titus: Introducing Containers to the Netflix Cloud
Approaching container adoption in an already cloud-native infrastructure.
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Network Applications Are Interactive
The network era requires new models, with interactions instead of algorithms.
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Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing
Ordinary users need tools that automate the selection of custom-tailored faults to inject.
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Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
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XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Cardboard surrounds and protects stuff as it crosses boundaries.
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Hootsuite: In Pursuit of Reactive Systems
A discussion with Edward Steel, Yanik Berube, Jonas Bonér, Ken Britton, and Terry Coatta
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Now That We Can Write Simultaneously, How Do We Use That to Our Advantage?
Word processors now make it possible for many authors to work on the same document concurrently. But what can they actually do?
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The Debugging Mind-Set
Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills.
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MongoDB's Javascript Fuzzer
The fuzzer is for those edge cases that your testing did not catch.
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Research For Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts; Hardware For Deep Learning
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Pervasive, Dynamic Authentication of Physical Items
The use of silicon PUF circuits.
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Time, but Faster
A computing adventure about time through the looking glass.
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Research For Practice: Distributed Transactions and Networks as Physical Sensors
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult.
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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
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