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Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.
R. V. Guha, Dan Brickley, Steve Macbeth From Communications of the ACM | February 2016
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A practitioner's guide to increasing confidence in system correctness.
Caitie McCaffrey From Communications of the ACM | February 2016
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Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
George V. Neville-Neil From Communications of the ACM | January 2016
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Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.
Mihir Nanavati, Malte Schwarzkopf, Jake Wires, Andrew Warfield From Communications of the ACM | January 2016
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We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.
Pat Helland From Communications of the ACM | January 2016
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Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
Olivia Angiuli, Joe Blitzstein, Jim Waldo From Communications of the ACM | December 2015
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Catering to developers' strengths while still meeting team objectives.
Kate Matsudaira From Communications of the ACM | December 2015
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Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
Fabien Gaud, Baptiste Lepers, Justin Funston, Mohammad Dashti, Alexandra Fedorova, Vivien Quéma, Renaud Lachaize, Mark Roth From Communications of the ACM | December 2015
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Reliability in the face of rapid change
Ben Maurer From Communications of the ACM | November 2015
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We may be on the cusp of a new revolution in Web development.
Taylor Savage From Communications of the ACM | November 2015
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Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
T. S. Pillai, V. Chidambaram, R. Alagappan, S. Al-Kiswany, A. C. Arpaci-Dusseau, R. H. Arpaci-Dusseau From Communications of the ACM | October 2015
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We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.
Rich Harris From Communications of the ACM | October 2015
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Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.
Philip Maddox From Communications of the ACM | September 2015
From Communications of the ACM
Use states to drive your tests.
Arie van Deursen From Communications of the ACM | August 2015
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Cloud computing for computer scientists.
Daniel C. Wang From Communications of the ACM | August 2015
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An agile process implementation
Phelim Dowling, Kevin McGrath From Communications of the ACM | July 2015
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The finance industry has unique demands for low-latency distributed systems.
Andrew Brook From Communications of the ACM | July 2015
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Lessons learned managing a data science research team.
Kate Matsudaira From Communications of the ACM | June 2015
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. . . or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love time.
Štěpán Davidovič, Kavita Guliani From Communications of the ACM | June 2015
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Problems with simultaneity in distributed systems.
Justin Sheehy From Communications of the ACM | May 2015