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The Science of Managing Data Science
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The Science of Managing Data Science

Lessons learned managing a data science research team.

Parallel Processing with <code>Promises</code>
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Parallel Processing with Promises

A simple method of writing a collaborative system.

Internal Access Controls
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Internal Access Controls

Trust, but verify.

Disambiguating Databases
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Disambiguating Databases

Use the database built for your access model.

The Responsive Enterprise
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way

Soon every company will be a software company.

A New Software Engineering
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A New Software Engineering

What happened to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development?

Evolution of the Product Manager
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Evolution of the Product Manager

Better education needed to develop the discipline.

Certificate Transparency
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Certificate Transparency

Public, verifiable, append-only logs.

Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market

Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.

Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences

Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.

Securing the Tangled Web
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Securing the Tangled Web

Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.

Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data

Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.

Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free
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Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free

How to generate funding for free and open source software.

Undergraduate Software Engineering
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Undergraduate Software Engineering

Addressing the needs of professional software development.

Who Must You Trust?
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Who Must You Trust?

You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.

Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts

A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta

The NSA and Snowden
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye

How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.

A Primer on Provenance
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A Primer on Provenance

Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.

Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency

Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.

Eventually Consistent
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?

Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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