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Model-Based Testing: Where Does It Stand?
MBT has positive effects on efficiency and effectiveness, even if it only partially fulfills high expectations.
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Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
And the belief in such a device is harmful.
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Why Is It Taking So Long to Secure Internet Routing?
Routing security incidents can still slip past deployed security defenses.
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The Network Is Reliable
An informal survey of real-world communications failures.
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Securing the Tangled Web
Preventing script injection vulnerabilities through software design.
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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Multipath TCP
Decoupled from IP, TCP is at last able to support multihomed hosts.
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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Rules For Mobile Performance Optimization
An overview of techniques to speed page loading.
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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