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How Fast Is Your Website?
Website performance data has never been more readily available.
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Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.
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Rethinking Passwords
Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?
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Condos and Clouds
Constraints in an environment empower the services.
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Browser Security: Appearances Can Be Deceiving
A discussion with Jeremiah Grossman, Ben Livshits, Rebecca Bace, and George Neville-Neil
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The Web Won't Be Safe or Secure Until We Break It
Unless you have taken very particular precautions, assume every website you visit knows exactly who you are.
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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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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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Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.
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Weathering the Unexpected
Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
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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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Toward Higher Precision
An introduction to PTP and its significance to NTP practitioners.
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.
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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
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Getting What You Measure
There are four common pitfalls to avoid when using software metrics in a project management setting.
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Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.
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Managing Technical Debt
Shortcuts that save money and time today can cost you down the road.
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Your Mouse Is a Database
Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.
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Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis
A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.
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