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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?
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DevEX: What Actually Drives Productivity?

The developer-centric approach to measuring and improving productivity.

Sharpening Your Tools
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Sharpening Your Tools

Updating bulk_extractor for the 2020s.

More Than Just Algorithms
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More Than Just Algorithms

A discussion with Alfred Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette Wing, Ben Fried, and Michael Tingley.

Taking Flight with Copilot
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Taking Flight with Copilot

Early insights and opportunities of AI-powered pair-programming tools.

Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies
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Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies

Now is the time to shape what future payment flows will reveal about you.

FHIR
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FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data

A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.

Research for Practice: Convergence
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Research for Practice: Convergence

The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.

Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
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Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter

Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.

It Takes a Community
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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge

A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.

A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

The history of Berkeley DB.

Static Analysis at GitHub
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Static Analysis at GitHub

An experience report.

Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools
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Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools

Evaluating tool design guidelines with SWAN.

Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)
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Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)

A user interface for querying provenance.

A New Era for Mechanical CAD
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A New Era for Mechanical CAD

Time to move forward from decades-old design.

WebRTC
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WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform

What was once a way to bring audio and video to the Web has expanded into more use cases than we could ever imagine.

Always-on Time-Series Database
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Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up

A discussion with Theo Schlossnagle, Justin Sheehy, and Chris McCubbin.

The SPACE of Developer Productivity
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The SPACE of Developer Productivity

There's more to it than you think.

Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing

From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.

The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs

Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.

The Life of a Data Byte
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The Life of a Data Byte

Be kind and rewind.
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