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Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
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Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me
A look at JavaScript libraries in the wild.
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Canary Analysis Service
Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.
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DevOps Delivers
The DevOps methodology has come of age in the past several years, and organizations are adopting key DevOps practices to transform their software practices.
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Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here?
It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.
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Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)
Complex socio-technical systems are hard; film at 11.
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DevOps Metrics
Your biggest mistake might be collecting the wrong data.
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Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
Being funny is serious work.
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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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Research For Practice: Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Breadth and Depth
We all wear many hats, but make sure you have one that fits well.
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Is There a Single Method For the Internet of Things?
Essence can keep software development for the IoT from becoming unwieldy.
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Metaphors We Compute By
Code is a story that explains how to solve a particular problem.
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