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Thinking Clearly About Performance, Part 1
Improving the performance of complex software is difficult, but understanding some fundamental principles can make it easier.
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Injecting Errors For Fun and Profit
Error-detection and correction features are only as good as our ability to test them.
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Computers in Patient Care: The Promise and the Challenge
Information technology has the potential to radically transform health care. Why has progress been so slow?
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Seven Principles For Selecting Software Packages
Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about the decision-making process.
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Moving to the Edge: A CTO Roundtable on Network Virtualization
Leading experts debate how virtualization and clouds impact network service architectures.
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Software Development with Code Maps
Could ubiquitous hand-drawn code map diagrams become a thing of the past?
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You're Doing It Wrong
Think you've mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
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Visualizing System Latency
Heat maps are a unique and powerful way to visualize latency data. Explaining the results, however, is an ongoing challenge.
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The Ideal HPC Programming Language
Maybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
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A Tour Through the Visualization Zoo
A survey of powerful visualization techniques, from the obvious to the obscure.
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Simplicity Betrayed
Emulating a video system shows how even a simple interface can be more complex—and capable—than it appears.
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Securing Elasticity in the Cloud
Elastic computing has great potential, but many security challenges remain.
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Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?
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Principles of Robust Timing Over the Internet
The key to synchronizing clocks over networks is taming delay variability.
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Enhanced Debugging With Traces
An essential technique used in emulator development is a useful addition to any programmer's toolbox.
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A View of Cloud Computing
Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.
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CTO Roundtable: Malware Defense
The battle is bigger than most of us realize.
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Cooling the Data Center
What can be done to make cooling systems in data centers more energy efficient?
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Global IT Management: Structuring For Scale, Responsiveness, and Innovation
To succeed on a global scale, businesses should focus on a trio of key elements.
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