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Research for Practice: Cluster Scheduling for Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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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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Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.
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Research For Practice: Private Online Communication; Highlights in Systems Verification
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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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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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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Research For Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems; Programming By Examples
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Side Effects, Front and Center
One system's side effect is another's meat and potatoes.
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The Debugging Mind-Set
Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills.
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