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Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
Being funny is serious work.
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Titus: Introducing Containers to the Netflix Cloud
Approaching container adoption in an already cloud-native infrastructure.
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Network Applications Are Interactive
The network era requires new models, with interactions instead of algorithms.
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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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Research For Practice: Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Breadth and Depth
We all wear many hats, but make sure you have one that fits well.
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Is There a Single Method For the Internet of Things?
Essence can keep software development for the IoT from becoming unwieldy.
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Metaphors We Compute By
Code is a story that explains how to solve a particular problem.
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Research For Practice: Technology For Underserved Communities; Personal Fabrication
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Four Ways to Make CS and IT More Immersive
Why the Bell curve hasn't transformed into a hockey stick.
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10 Ways to Be a Better Interviewer
Plan ahead to make the interview a successful one.
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Research For Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems; Programming By Examples
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Side Effects, Front and Center
One system's side effect is another's meat and potatoes.
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The Debugging Mind-Set
Understanding the psychology of learning strategies leads to effective problem-solving skills.
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Conversations with Technology Leaders: Erik Meijer
Great engineers are able to maximize their mental power.
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Making Money Using Math
Modern applications are increasingly using probabilistic machine-learned models.
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