Latest Practice
From Communications of the ACM
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
Zachary Hensley, Jibonananda Sanyal, Joshua New From Communications of the ACM | February 2014
From Communications of the ACM
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.
Jason Lango From Communications of the ACM | January 2014
From Communications of the ACM
HTTP continues to evolve.
Ilya Grigorik From Communications of the ACM | December 2013
From Communications of the ACM
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
Jacob Loveless From Communications of the ACM | October 2013
From Communications of the ACM
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
Jacob Loveless, Sasha Stoikov, Rolf Waeber From Communications of the ACM | October 2013
From Communications of the ACM
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
Stephen D. Strowes From Communications of the ACM | October 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Embracing failure to improve resilience and maximize availability.
Ariel Tseitlin From Communications of the ACM | August 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
Alex Nicolaou From Communications of the ACM | August 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
Mark Cavage From Communications of the ACM | June 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
Bill Hsu, Marc Sosnick-Pérez From Communications of the ACM | June 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
Latanya Sweeney From Communications of the ACM | May 2013
From Communications of the ACM
How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?
Peter Bailis, Ali Ghodsi From Communications of the ACM | May 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Building websites that perform well on mobile devices remains a challenge.
Nicholas C. Zakas From Communications of the ACM | April 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Website performance data has never been more readily available.
Patrick Meenan From Communications of the ACM | April 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.
Arun Kumar, Feng Niu, Christopher Ré From Communications of the ACM | March 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?
William Cheswick From Communications of the ACM | February 2013
From Communications of the ACM
Constraints in an environment empower the services.
Pat Helland From Communications of the ACM | January 2013
From Communications of the ACM
A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.
From Communications of the ACM | November 2012
From Communications of the ACM
Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
Kripa Krishnan From Communications of the ACM | November 2012
From Communications of the ACM
An introduction to PTP and its significance to NTP practitioners.
Rick Ratzel, Rodney Greenstreet From Communications of the ACM | October 2012