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The Debugging Mind-Set
Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills.
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Making Money Using Math
Modern applications are increasingly using probabilistic machine-learned models.
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Faucet: Deploying SDN in the Enterprise
Using OpenFlow and DevOps for rapid development.
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Functional at Scale
Applying functional programming principles to distributed computing projects.
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React: Facebook's Functional Turn on Writing Javascript
A discussion with Pete Hunt, Paul O'Shannessy, Dave Smith, and Terry Coatta
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Industrial-Scale Agile: From Craft to Engineering
Essence is instrumental in moving software development toward a true engineering discipline.
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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.
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Idle-Time Garbage-Collection Scheduling
Taking advantage of idleness to reduce dropped frames and memory consumption.
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Dynamics of Change: Why Reactivity Matters
Tame the dynamics of change by centralizing each concern in its own module.
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Bad Software Architecture Is a People Problem
When people don't work well together they make bad decisions.
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Debugging Distributed Systems
ShiViz is a new distributed system debugging visualization tool.
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The Singular Success of SQL
SQL has a brilliant future as a major figure in the pantheon of data representations.
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Should You Upload or Ship Big Data to the Cloud?
The accepted wisdom does not always hold true.
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The Small Batches Principle
Reducing waste, encouraging experimentation, and making everyone happy.
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Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes
Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade.
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How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves
How to lose friends and alienate coworkers.
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Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web
Big data makes common schemas even more necessary.
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