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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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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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Low-Latency Distributed Applications in Finance
The finance industry has unique demands for low-latency distributed systems.
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Reliable Cron Across the Planet
. . . or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love time.
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Hadoop Superlinear Scalability
The perpetual motion of parallel performance.
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Meta II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium
Revisiting Schorre's 1962 compiler-compiler.
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Model-Based Testing: Where Does It Stand?
MBT has positive effects on efficiency and effectiveness, even if it only partially fulfills high expectations.
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Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
Soon every company will be a software company.
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
And the belief in such a device is harmful.
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A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity
Looking at the design and benefits of X10.
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JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
Conditional dependency resolution.
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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