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CTO Roundtable: Malware Defense
The battle is bigger than most of us realize.
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Global IT Management: Structuring For Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation
To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.
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GFS: Evolution on Fast-Forward
Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan discuss the origin and evolution of the Google File System.
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Software Model Checking Takes Off
A translator framework enables the use of model checking in complex avionics systems and other industrial settings.
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Managing Contention For Shared Resources on Multicore Processors
Contention for caches, memory controllers, and interconnects can be eased by contention-aware scheduling algorithms.
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Power-Efficient Software
Power-manageable hardware can help save energy, but what can software developers do to address the problem?
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Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
As hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.
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Other People's Data
Companies have access to more types of external data than ever before. How can they integrate it most effectively?
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Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?
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You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
Long considered an afterthought, software maintenance is easiest and most effective when built into a system from the ground up.
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Monitoring and Control of Large Systems With MonALISA
MonALISA developers describe how it works, the key design principles behind it, and the biggest technical challenges in building it.
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Reveling in Constraints
The Google Web Toolkit is an end-run around Web development obstacles.
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CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing
The age of cloud computing has begun. How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities it provides?
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The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later
Revisiting Gray and Putzolu's famous rule in the age of Flash.
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Whither Sockets?
The pervasive and long-lasting sockets API has remained largely unchanged since 1982. How have developers worked around its inherent limitations and what is the...
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Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
New drive technologies and increased capacities create new categories of failure modes that will influence system designs.
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Debugging AJAX in Production
Lacking proper browser support, what steps can we take to debug production AJAX code?
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API Design Matters
It is very easy to create a bad API and rather difficult to create a good one. Recent APIs implemented in modern programming languages make the same mistakes as...
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ORM in Dynamic Languages
Dynamic languages offer a taste of object-relational mapping that eases application code.
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