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Scalability Techniques For Practical Synchronization Primitives
Designing locking primitives with performance in mind.
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
Soon every company will be a software company.
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No Such Thing as a General-Purpose Processor
And the belief in such a device is harmful.
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A Decade of Progress in Parallel Programming Productivity
Looking at the design and benefits of X10.
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JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
Conditional dependency resolution.
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
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Bringing Arbitrary Compute to Authoritative Data
Many disparate use cases can be satisfied with a single storage system.
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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple
If you see something, say something.
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Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell
Looking at embedded DSLs.
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The Curse of the Excluded Middle
"Mostly functional" programming does not work.
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Design Exploration Through Code-Generating DSLs
High-level DSLs for low-level programming.
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The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
How good security at the NSA could have stopped him.
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A Primer on Provenance
Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.
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Major-League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?
Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier.
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Scaling Existing Lock-Based Applications with Lock Elision
Enabling existing lock-based programs to achieve performance benefits of nonblocking synchronization.
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The API Performance Contract
How can the expected interactions between caller and implementation be guaranteed?
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Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster
A discussion with Kiran Prasad, Kelly Norton, and Terry Coatta.
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