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The Top 10 Things Executives Should Know About Software
Software acumen is the new norm.
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Access Controls and Healthcare Records: Who Owns the Data?
A discussion with David Evans, Richard McDonald, and Terry Coatta.
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Garbage Collection as a Joint Venture
A collaborative approach to reclaiming memory in heterogeneous software systems.
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How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters)
Build safety, share vulnerability, and establish purpose.
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Research for Practice: Troubling Trends in Machine-Learning Scholarship
Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research.
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Achieving Digital Permanence
The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.
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Online Event Processing
Achieving consistency where distributed transactions have failed.
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Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling
Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.
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Identity by Any Other Name
The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.
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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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Design Patterns for Managing Up
Four challenging work situations and how to handle them.
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Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data
These attacks on statistical databases are no longer a theoretical danger.
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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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The Importance of a Great Finish
You have to finish strong, every time.
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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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