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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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20 Obstacles to Scalability
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.
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An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
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Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
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Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming
Exploring an alternative to lock-based synchronization.
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Proving the Correctness of Nonblocking Data Structures
Nonblocking synchronization can yield astonishing results in terms of scalability and real-time response, but at the expense of verification state space.
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
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A File System All Its Own
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
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Making the Mobile Web Faster
Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.
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The Essence of Software Engineering: The SEMAT Kernel
A thinking framework in the form of an actionable kernel.
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Sender-Side Buffers and the Case For Multimedia Adaptation
A proposal to improve the performance and availability of streaming video and other time-sensitive media.
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Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
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Disks from the Perspective of a File System
Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.
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Fault Injection in Production
Making the case for resilience testing.
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.
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A New Objective-C Runtime: From Research to Production
Backward compatibility always trumps new features.
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Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags
Finding and fixing bugs in deployed software is difficult and time-consuming. Here are some alternatives.
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