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More Encryption Means Less Privacy
Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.
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Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
Sometimes all you need is the right language.
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How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves
How to lose friends and alienate coworkers.
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A Purpose-Built Global Network: Google's Move to SDN
A discussion with Amin Vahdat, David Clark, and Jennifer Rexford.
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The Paradox of Autonomy and Recognition
Thoughts on trust and merit in software team culture.
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Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
The "Leftover Principle" requires increasingly more highly skilled humans.
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Immutability Changes Everything
We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.
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How to De-Identify Your Data
Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
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Lean Software Development: Building and Shipping Two Versions
Catering to developers' strengths while still meeting team objectives.
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
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Componentizing the Web
We may be on the cusp of a new revolution in Web development.
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Crash Consistency
Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry
We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.
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Testing a Distributed System
Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.
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Testing Web Applications with State Objects
Use states to drive your tests.
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Using Free and Open Source Tools to Manage Software Quality
An agile process implementation
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