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Time Is an Illusion Lunchtime Doubly So
Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Non-Volatile Storage
Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.
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Immutability Changes Everything
We need it, we can afford it, and the time is now.
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How to De-Identify Your Data
Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
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Lean Software Development: Building and Shipping Two Versions
Catering to developers' strengths while still meeting team objectives.
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern N-UMA Systems
Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
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It Probably Works
Probabilistic algorithms are all around us. Not only are they acceptable, some programmers actually seek out chances to use them.
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Componentizing the Web
We may be on the cusp of a new revolution in Web development.
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Crash Consistency
Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
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Testing a Distributed System
Testing a distributed system can be trying even under the best of circumstances.
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Testing Web Applications with State Objects
Use states to drive your tests.
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Using Free and Open Source Tools to Manage Software Quality
An agile process implementation
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Low-Latency Distributed Applications in Finance
The finance industry has unique demands for low-latency distributed systems.
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Reliable Cron Across the Planet
. . . or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love time.
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Hadoop Superlinear Scalability
The perpetual motion of parallel performance.
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Meta II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium
Revisiting Schorre's 1962 compiler-compiler.
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