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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
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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.

Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
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Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking

An open standard that enables software-defined networking.

Controlling Queue Delay
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Controlling Queue Delay

Active queue management is just one piece of the solution to persistently full buffers.

A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
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A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking

A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.

Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
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Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections

Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.

Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
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Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition

Messages may be retried. Idempotence means that's OK.

Your Mouse Is a Database
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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.

Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis
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Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis

A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.

CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History
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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History

With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.

SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing
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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing

SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.

Revisiting Network I/O APIs
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Revisiting Network I/O APIs: The Netmap Framework

It is possible to achieve huge performance improvements in the way packet processing is done on modern operating systems.

The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit
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The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit

Make a guess, double the number, and then move to the next larger unit of time.

Bufferbloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?
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Bufferbloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?

A discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys.

Advances and Challenges in Log Analysis
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Advances and Challenges in Log Analysis

Logs contain a wealth of information to help manage systems.

Bufferbloat
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Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet

Networks without effective AQM may again be vulnerable to congestion collapse.

How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?
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How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?

Astronomers are collecting more data than ever. What practices can keep them ahead of the flood?

The Software Industry <i>is</i> the Problem
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The Software Industry is the Problem

The time has come for software liability laws.

ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
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ACM CTO Roundtable on Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

Finding solutions as growth and fragmentation complicate mobile device support.

The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake
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The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake

Did Ken, Dennis, and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings?

Arrogance in Business Planning
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Arrogance in Business Planning

Technology business plans that assume no competition — ever.
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