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Why SRE Documents Matter
How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.
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How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
Five strategies for pushing through.
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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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The Secret Formula for Choosing the Right Next Role
The best careers are not defined by titles or résumé bullet points.
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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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Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems
What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?
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Consistently Eventual
For many data items, the work never settles on a value.
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Research for Practice: Toward a Network of Connected Things
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
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