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Life Beyond Distributed Transactions
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Life Beyond Distributed Transactions

An apostate's opinion.

Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
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Are You Load Balancing Wrong?

Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult.

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control

Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.

Research For Practice
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Research For Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

The Power of Babble
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The Power of Babble

Expect to be constantly and pleasantly befuddled.

Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs
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Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs

Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.

Research For Practice
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Research For Practice: Distributed Consensus and Implications of NVM on Database Management Systems

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research for practitioners.

Introducing Research For Practice
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Introducing Research For Practice

Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.

10 Optimizations on Linear Search
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10 Optimizations on Linear Search

The operations side of the story.

The Singular Success of SQL
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The Singular Success of SQL

SQL has a brilliant future as a major figure in the pantheon of data representations.

Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?
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Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?

The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.

More Encryption Means Less Privacy
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More Encryption Means Less Privacy

Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.

Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
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Why Logical Clocks Are Easy

Sometimes all you need is the right language.

A Purpose-Built Global Network
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A Purpose-Built Global Network: Google's Move to SDN

A discussion with Amin Vahdat, David Clark, and Jennifer Rexford.

Schema.org
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Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web

Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.

Non-Volatile Storage
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Non-Volatile Storage

Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.

Immutability Changes Everything
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Immutability Changes Everything

We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.

How to De-Identify Your Data
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How to De-Identify Your Data

Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.

Lean Software Development
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Lean Software Development: Building and Shipping Two Versions

Catering to developers' strengths while still meeting team objectives.

Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems

Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
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