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The One-Second War
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
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Mobile Application Development: Web vs. Native
Web apps are cheaper to develop and deploy than native apps, but can they match the native user experience?
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Weapons of Mass Assignment
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.
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A Co-Relational Model of Data For Large Shared Data Banks
Contrary to popular belief, SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin.
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Returning Control to the Programmer: SIMD Intrinsics For Virtual Machines
Exposing SIMD units within interpreted languages could simplify programs and unleash floods of untapped processor power.
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B.Y.O.C (1,342 Times and Counting)
Why can't we all use standard libraries for commonly needed algorithms?
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Testable System Administration
As we progress into an information age, humans will need to work less like the machines they use and embrace...
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Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
Ideally, all software should be easy to use and accessible for a wide range of people. However, software often falls short of these basic goals. We therefore need...
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Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?
Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.
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Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?
As storage systems grow larger and larger, protecting their data for long-term storage is becoming ever more challenging.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 2
More important principles to keep in mind when designing high-performance software.
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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 1
Improving the performance of complex software is difficult, but understanding some fundamental principles can make it easier.
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Moving to the Edge: A CTO Roundtable on Network Virtualization
Leading experts debate how virtualization and clouds impact network service architectures.
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Software Development with Code Maps
Could ubiquitous hand-drawn code map diagrams become a thing of the past?
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The Ideal HPC Programming Language
Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
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Simplicity Betrayed
Emulating a video system shows how even a simple interface can be more complex—and capable—than it appears.
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Securing Elasticity in the Cloud
Elastic computing has great potential, but many security challenges remain.
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Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?
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Enhanced Debugging With Traces
An essential technique used in emulator development is a useful addition to any programmer's toolbox.
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