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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free
How to generate funding for free and open source software.
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Who Must You Trust?
You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple
If you see something, say something.
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Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell
Looking at embedded DSLs.
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The Curse of the Excluded Middle
"Mostly functional" programming does not work.
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Design Exploration Through Code-Generating DSLs
High-level DSLs for low-level programming.
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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A Primer on Provenance
Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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Major-League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?
Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier.
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Multipath TCP
Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster
A discussion with Kiran Prasad, Kelly Norton, and Terry Coatta.
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