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The Secret Formula for Choosing the Right Next Role
The best careers are not defined by titles or résumé bullet points.
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Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.
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Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
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Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
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Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems
What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?
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Consistently Eventual
For many data items, the work never settles on a value.
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Research for Practice: Toward a Network of Connected Things
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
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Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me
A look at JavaScript libraries in the wild.
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Research for Practice: Cluster Scheduling for Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Canary Analysis Service
Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.
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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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