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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor

And the belief in such a device is harmful.

Certificate Transparency
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Certificate Transparency

Public, verifiable, append-only logs.

Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?
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Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?

Routing security incidents can still slip past deployed security defenses.

The Network Is Reliable
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The Network Is Reliable

An informal survey of real-world communications failures.

Securing the Tangled Web
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Securing the Tangled Web

Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.

Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data

Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.

Undergraduate Software Engineering
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Undergraduate Software Engineering

Addressing the needs of professional software development.

Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency

Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.

Rate-Limiting State
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Rate-Limiting State

The edge of the Internet is an unruly place.

Multipath TCP
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Multipath TCP

Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.

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.
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