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DevOps Delivers
The DevOps methodology has come of age in the past several years, and organizations are adopting key DevOps practices to transform their software practices.
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Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here?
It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.
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Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)
Complex socio-technical systems are hard; film at 11.
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DevOps Metrics
Your biggest mistake might be collecting the wrong data.
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Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.
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Monitoring in a DevOps World
Perfect should never be the enemy of better.
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Titus: Introducing Containers to the Netflix Cloud
Approaching container adoption in an already cloud-native infrastructure.
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Research For Practice: Private Online Communication; Highlights in Systems Verification
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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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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Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree
The concept of cryptocurrencies is built from forgotten ideas in research literature.
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XML and JSON Are Like Cardboard
Cardboard surrounds and protects stuff as it crosses boundaries.
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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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The Calculus of Service Availability
You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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Data Sketching
The approximate approach is often faster and more efficient.
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Now That We Can Write Simultaneously, How Do We Use That to Our Advantage?
Word processors now make it possible for many authors to work on the same document concurrently. But what can they actually do?
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