Communications of the ACM
Latest Practice
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: The DevOps Phenomenon
An executive crash course.
From Communications of the ACM
Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
From Communications of the ACM
Garbage Collection as a Joint Venture
A collaborative approach to reclaiming memory in heterogeneous software systems.
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: Troubling Trends in Machine-Learning Scholarship
Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research.
From Communications of the ACM
Achieving Digital Permanence
The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.
From Communications of the ACM
Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling
Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.
From Communications of the ACM
Identity by Any Other Name
The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.
From Communications of the ACM
Metrics That Matter
Critical but oft-neglected service metrics that every SRE and product owner should care about.
From Communications of the ACM
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.
From Communications of the ACM
CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
From Communications of the ACM
Using Remote Cache Service for Bazel
Save time by sharing and reusing build and test output.
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.
From Communications of the ACM
SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.
From Communications of the ACM
Why SRE Documents Matter
How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.
From Communications of the ACM
Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: Knowledge Base Construction in the Machine-Learning Era
Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.
From Communications of the ACM
Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.
From Communications of the ACM
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
From Communications of the ACM