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Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
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Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
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Consistently Eventual
For many data items, the work never settles on a value.
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Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
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Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me
A look at JavaScript libraries in the wild.
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Research for Practice: Cluster Scheduling for Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Canary Analysis Service
Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.
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DevOps Delivers
The DevOps methodology has come of age in the past several years, and organizations are adopting key DevOps practices to transform their software practices.
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Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here?
It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.
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Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)
Complex socio-technical systems are hard; film at 11.
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DevOps Metrics
Your biggest mistake might be collecting the wrong data.
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Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.
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Research For Practice: Private Online Communication; Highlights in Systems Verification
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing
Ordinary users need tools that automate the selection of custom-tailored faults to inject.
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Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
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