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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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Toward Software-Defined SLAs
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.
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Barbarians at the Gateways
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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Structured Deferral: Synchronization via Procrastination
We simply do not have a synchronization mechanism that can enforce mutual exclusion.
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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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Real-Time GPU Audio
Real-time finite difference-based sound synthesis using graphics processors.
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Resolved: The Internet Is No Place For Critical Infrastructure
Risk is a necessary consequence of dependence.
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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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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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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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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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