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Managing Technical Debt
Shortcuts that save money and time today can cost you down the road.
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Idempotence Is Not a Medical Condition
Messages may be retried. Idempotence means that's OK.
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Your Mouse Is a Database
Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.
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Why LINQ Matters: Cloud Composability Guaranteed
The benefits of composability are becoming clear in software engineering.
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Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis
A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.
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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History
With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.
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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing
SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.
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Revisiting Network I/O APIs: The Netmap Framework
It is possible to achieve huge performance improvements in the way packet processing is done on modern operating systems.
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The Hyperdimensional Tar Pit
Make a guess, double the number, and then move to the next larger unit of time.
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Bufferbloat: What's Wrong With the Internet?
A discussion with Vint Cerf, Van Jacobson, Nick Weaver, and Jim Gettys.
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You Don't Know Jack About Shared Variables or Memory Models
Data races are evil.
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Advances and Challenges in Log Analysis
Logs contain a wealth of information to help manage systems.
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Creating Languages in Racket
Sometimes you just have to make a better mousetrap.
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Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet
Networks without effective AQM may again be vulnerable to congestion collapse.
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I/O Virtualization
Decoupling a logical device from its physical implementation offers many compelling advantages.
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Postmortem Debugging in Dynamic Environments
Many modern dynamic languages lack tools for understanding complex failures.
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How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?
Astronomers are collecting more data than ever. What practices can keep them ahead of the flood?
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Coding Guidelines: Finding the Art in the Science
Computer science is both a science and an art. Yet, when it comes time for implementation, there is a combination of artistic flare, nuanced style, and technical...
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The Software Industry is the Problem
The time has come for software liability laws.
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