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Split Your Overwhelmed Teams
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Split Your Overwhelmed Teams

Two teams of five is not the same as one team of 10.

From Zero to 100
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From Zero to 100

Demystifying zero trust and its implications on enterprise people, process, and technology.

The Arrival of Zero Trust
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The Arrival of Zero Trust: What Does it Mean?

A discussion of zero-trust enterprise efforts in cybersecurity.

Research for Practice: Crash Consistency
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Research for Practice: Crash Consistency

Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem.

CSRB's Opus One
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CSRB's Opus One

Comments on the Cyber Safety Review Board Log4j Event Report.

Research for Practice: Convergence
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Research for Practice: Convergence

The return of a popular feature that shares the joy and utility of reading CS research between academics and their counterparts in industry.

Walk a Mile in Their Shoes
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Walk a Mile in Their Shoes

The COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of four tech workers.

Linear Address Spaces
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Linear Address Spaces

Unsafe at any speed.

Middleware 101
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Middleware 101

What to know now and for the future.

Persistence Programming
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Persistence Programming

Are we doing this right?

Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
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Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter

Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.

The Software Industry Is <i>Still</i> the Problem
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The Software Industry Is Still the Problem

The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.

Lamboozling Attackers
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Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception

Software engineering teams can exploit attackers' human nature by building deception environments.

It Takes a Community
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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge

A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.

Meaning and Context in Computer Programs
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Meaning and Context in Computer Programs

Sharing domain knowledge among programmers using the source code as the medium.

A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson

The history of Berkeley DB.

Static Analysis at GitHub
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Static Analysis at GitHub

An experience report.

Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools
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Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools

Evaluating tool design guidelines with SWAN.

Static Analysis
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Static Analysis

The fundamental challenge of software engineering is one of complexity.

Software Development in Disruptive Times
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Software Development in Disruptive Times

Creating a software solution with fast decision capability, agile project management, and extreme low-code technology.
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