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The Software Inferno
Dante's tale, as experienced by a software architect.
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Toward Software-Defined SLAs
Enterprise computing in the public cloud.
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Unikernels: The Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System
What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?
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The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability
Interfacing between languages is becoming more important
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Intermediate Representation
The increasing significance of intermediate representations in compilers.
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Adopting Devops Practices in Quality Assurance
Merging the art and science of software development.
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Agile and SEMAT: Perfect Partners
Combining agile and SEMAT yields more advantages than either one alone.
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Barbarians at the Gateways
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
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Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
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Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
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The Balancing Act of Choosing Nonblocking Features
Design requirements of nonblocking systems.
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20 Obstacles to Scalability
Watch out for these pitfalls that can prevent Web application scaling.
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An Overview of Non-Uniform Memory Access
NUMA becomes more common because memory controllers get close to execution units on microprocessors.
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Best Practices on the Move: Building Web Apps For Mobile Devices
Which practices should be modified or avoided altogether by developers for the mobile Web?
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Nonblocking Algorithms and Scalable Multicore Programming
Exploring an alternative to lock-based synchronization.
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Proving the Correctness of Nonblocking Data Structures
Nonblocking synchronization can yield astonishing results in terms of scalability and real-time response, but at the expense of verification state space.
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There Is No Getting Around It: You Are Building a Distributed System
Building a distributed system requires a methodical approach to requirements.
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Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery
Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.
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