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Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
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Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond
How can applications be built on eventually consistent infrastructure given no guarantee of safety?
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A File System All Its Own
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
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The Evolution of Web Development For Mobile Devices
Building websites that perform well on mobile devices remains a challenge.
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How Fast Is Your Website?
Website performance data has never been more readily available.
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Hazy: Making It Easier to Build and Maintain Big-Data Analytics
Racing to unleash the full potential of big data with the latest statistical and machine-learning techniques.
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Rethinking Passwords
Our authentication system is lacking. Is improvement possible?
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Condos and Clouds
Constraints in an environment empower the services.
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Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
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Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
A discussion with Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, and Tom Limoncelli.
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Weathering the Unexpected
Failures happen, and resilience drills help organizations prepare for them.
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Disks from the Perspective of a File System
Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime.
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Toward Higher Precision
An introduction to PTP and its significance to NTP practitioners.
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All Your Database Are Belong To Us
In the big open world of the cloud, highly available distributed objects will rule.
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Modeling People and Places with Internet Photo Collections
Understanding the world from the sea of online photos.
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Your Mouse Is a Database
Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and real-time streaming services and push notifications.
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Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis
A taxonomy of tools that support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations.
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CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History
With the open CPU DB database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.
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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing For Security Testing
SAGE has had a remarkable impact at Microsoft.
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