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Low-Latency Distributed Applications in Finance
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Low-Latency Distributed Applications in Finance

The finance industry has unique demands for low-latency distributed systems.

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

Lessons learned managing a data science research team.

Reliable Cron Across the Planet
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Reliable Cron Across the Planet

. . . or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love time.

There Is No Now
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There Is No Now

Problems with simultaneity in distributed systems.

Go Static or Go Home
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Go Static or Go Home

In the end, dynamic systems are simply less secure.

Hadoop Superlinear Scalability
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Hadoop Superlinear Scalability

The perpetual motion of parallel performance.

Meta II
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Meta II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium

Revisiting Schorre's 1962 compiler-compiler.

Model-Based Testing
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Model-Based Testing: Where Does It Stand?

MBT has positive effects on efficiency and effectiveness, even if it only partially fulfills high expectations.

Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
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Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives

Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.

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.

No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor

And the belief in such a device is harmful.

A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity
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A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity

Looking at the design and benefits of X10.

JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
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JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface

Conditional dependency resolution.

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

Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.

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.

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
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