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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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20 Obstacles to Scalability
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.
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An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
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The Antifragile Organization
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
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Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
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Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization
An overview of techniques to speed page loading.
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Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming
Exploring an alternative to lock-based synchronization.
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Proving the Correctness of Nonblocking Data Structures
Nonblocking synchronization can yield astonishing results in terms of scalability and real-time response, but at the expense of verification state space.
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.
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Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond
How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?
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A File System All Its Own
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
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How Fast Is Your Website?
Website performance data has never been more readily available.
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FPGA Programming For the Masses
The programmability of FPGAs must improve if they are to be part of mainstream computing.
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Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.
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Making the Mobile Web Faster
Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.
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Rethinking Passwords
Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?
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