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The Small Batches Principle
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The Small Batches Principle

Reducing waste, encouraging experimentation, and making everyone happy.

The Flame Graph
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The Flame Graph

This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging.

Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes
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Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes

Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.

Use-Case 2.0
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Use-Case 2.0

The hub of software development.

More Encryption Means Less Privacy
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More Encryption Means Less Privacy

Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.

Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
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Why Logical Clocks Are Easy

Sometimes all you need is the right language.

How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves
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How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves

How to lose friends and alienate coworkers.

A Purpose-Built Global Network
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A Purpose-Built Global Network: Google's Move to SDN

A discussion with Amin Vahdat, David Clark, and Jennifer Rexford.

Schema.org
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Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web

Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.

The Verification of a Distributed System
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The Verification of a Distributed System

A practitioner's guide to increasing confidence in system correctness.

Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So
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Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So

Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Non-Volatile Storage
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Non-Volatile Storage

Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.

Immutability Changes Everything
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Immutability Changes Everything

We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.

How to De-Identify Your Data
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How to De-Identify Your Data

Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.

Lean Software Development
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Lean Software Development: Building and Shipping Two Versions

Catering to developers' strengths while still meeting team objectives.

Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems

Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.

Fail at Scale
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Fail at Scale

Reliability in the face of rapid change

It Probably Works
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It Probably Works

Probabilistic algorithms are all around us. Not only are they acceptable, some programmers actually seek out chances to use them.

Componentizing the Web
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Componentizing the Web

We may be on the cusp of a new revolution in Web development.

Crash Consistency
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Crash Consistency

Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
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