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Hootsuite: In Pursuit of Reactive Systems
A discussion with Edward Steel, Yanik Berube, Jonas Bonér, Ken Britton, and Terry Coatta
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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: 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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Making Money Using Math
Modern applications are increasingly using probabilistic machine-learned models.
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MongoDB's Javascript Fuzzer
The fuzzer is for those edge cases that your testing did not catch.
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Are You Load Balancing Wrong?
Anyone can use a load balancer. Using it properly is much more difficult.
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BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control
Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
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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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The Power of Babble
Expect to be constantly and pleasantly befuddled.
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Scaling Synchronization in Multicore Programs
Advanced synchronization methods can boost the performance of multicore software.
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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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