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Metrics That Matter
Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.
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Research for Practice: Edge Computing
Scaling resources within multiple administrative domains.
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.
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CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
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Using Remote Cache Service for Bazel
Save time by sharing and reusing build and test output.
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Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.
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SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.
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Why SRE Documents Matter
How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.
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Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
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Research for Practice: Knowledge Base Construction in the Machine-Learning Era
Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.
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Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.
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The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
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Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.
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Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
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Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
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Consistently Eventual
For many data items, the work never settles on a value.
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