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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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Fault Injection in Production
Making the case for resilience testing.
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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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Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
An open standard that enables software-defined networking.
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Controlling Queue Delay
Active queue management is just one piece of the solution to persistently full buffers.
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A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.
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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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Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
Messages may be retried. Idempotence means that's OK.
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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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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History
With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.
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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing
SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.
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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.
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The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit
Make a guess, double the number, and then move to the next larger unit of time.
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Bufferbloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?
A discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys.
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You Don't Know Jack About Shared Variables or Memory Models
Data races are evil.
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