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Who Must You Trust?
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Who Must You Trust?

You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.

Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts

A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta

Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple
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Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple

If you see something, say something.

Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell
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Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell

Looking at embedded DSLs.

The Curse of the Excluded Middle
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The Curse of the Excluded Middle

"Mostly functional" programming does not work.

Design Exploration Through Code-Generating DSLs
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Design Exploration Through Code-Generating DSLs

High-level DSLs for low-level programming.

The NSA and Snowden
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye

How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.

A Primer on Provenance
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A Primer on Provenance

Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.

Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency

Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.

Major-League SEMAT
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Major-League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?

Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier.

Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision

Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.

Eventually Consistent
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?

Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.

Node at LinkedIn
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Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster

A discussion with Kiran Prasad, Kelly Norton, and Terry Coatta.

Provenance in Sensor Data Management
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management

A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.

The Software Inferno
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The Software Inferno

Dante's tale, as experienced by a software architect.

Toward Software-Defined SLAs
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Toward Software-Defined SLAs

Enterprise computing in the public cloud.

Unikernels
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Unikernels: The Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System

What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?

Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2.0
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Making the Web Faster with HTTP 2.0

HTTP continues to evolve.

The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability
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The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability

Interfacing between languages is becoming more important

Intermediate Representation
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Intermediate Representation

The increasing significance of intermediate representations in compilers.
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