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The Small Batches Principle
Reducing waste, encouraging experimentation, and making everyone happy.
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The Flame Graph
This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging.
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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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Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web
Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.
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The Verification of a Distributed System
A practitioner's guide to increasing confidence in system correctness.
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Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So
Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Non-Volatile Storage
Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.
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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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Testing a Distributed System
Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.
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Natural Language Translation at the Intersection of AI and HCI
Old questions being answered with both AI and HCI.
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