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The Essence of Software Engineering: The SEMAT Kernel
A thinking framework in the form of an actionable kernel.
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Sender-Side Buffers and the Case For Multimedia Adaptation
A proposal to improve the performance and availability of streaming video and other time-sensitive media.
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Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
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Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.
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Weathering the Unexpected
Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
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Disks from the Perspective of a File System
Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.
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Toward Higher Precision
An introduction to PTP and its significance to NTP practitioners.
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Fault Injection in Production
Making the case for resilience testing.
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A Generation Lost in the Bazaar
Quality happens only when someone is responsible for it.
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A New Objective-C Runtime: From Research to Production
Backward compatibility always trumps new features.
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Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags
Finding and fixing bugs in deployed software is difficult and time-consuming. Here are some alternatives.
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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
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Openflow: A Radical New Idea in Networking
An open standard that enables software-defined networking.
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Extending the Semantics of Scheduling Priorities
Increasing parallelism demands new paradigms.
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Multitier Programming in Hop
A first step toward programming 21st-century applications.
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Controlling Queue Delay
Active queue management is just one piece of the solution to persistently full buffers.
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My Compiler Does Not Understand Me
Until our programming languages catch up, code will be full of horrors.
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Getting What You Measure
There are four common pitfalls to avoid when using software metrics in a project management setting.
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A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.
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