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Hadoop Superlinear Scalability
The perpetual motion of parallel performance.
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Meta II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium
Revisiting Schorre's 1962 compiler-compiler.
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Securing Network Time Protocol
Crackers discover how to use NTP as a weapon for abuse.
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Model-Based Testing: Where Does It Stand?
MBT has positive effects on efficiency and effectiveness, even if it only partially fulfills high expectations.
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Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.
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Disambiguating Databases
Use the database built for your access model.
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
Soon every company will be a software company.
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
And the belief in such a device is harmful.
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A New Software Engineering
What happened to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development?
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A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity
Looking at the design and benefits of X10.
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JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
Conditional dependency resolution.
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Evolution of the Product Manager
Better education needed to develop the discipline.
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
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Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?
Routing security incidents can still slip past deployed security defenses.
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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
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The Network Is Reliable
An informal survey of real-world communications failures.
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