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Industrial-Scale Agile: From Craft to Engineering
Essence is instrumental in moving software development toward a true engineering discipline.
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Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.
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Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.
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Fresh Starts
Just because you have been doing it the same way doesn't mean you are doing it the right way.
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Dynamics of Change: Why Reactivity Matters
Tame the dynamics of change by centralizing each concern in its own module.
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Introducing Research For Practice
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.
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Debugging Distributed Systems
ShiViz is a new distributed system debugging visualization tool.
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Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?
The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.
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The Small Batches Principle
Reducing waste, encouraging experimentation, and making everyone happy.
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Nine Things I Didn't Know I Would Learn Being an Engineer Manager
Many of the skills aren't technical at all.
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Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants
Farsighted physicists of yore were danged smart!
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Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes
Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.
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More Encryption Means Less Privacy
Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.
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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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