Communications of the ACM
From Communications of the ACM
What Is a Chief Security Officer Good For?
Security requires more than an off-the-shelf solution.
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Writing a Test Plan
Establish your hypotheses, methodologies, and expected results.
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A Chance Gardener
Harvesting open source products and planting the next crop.
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The Obscene Coupling Known as Spaghetti Code
Teach your junior programmers how to read code.
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Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Cache is king. And if your cache is cut, you are going to feel it.
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Popping Kernels
Choosing between programming in the kernel or in user space.
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Reducing the Attack Surface
Sometimes you can give the monkey a less-dangerous club.
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IoT: The Internet of Terror
If it seems like the sky is falling, that's because it is.
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Forced Exception Handling
You can never discount the human element in programming.
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The Chess Player Who Couldn't Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
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The Unholy Trinity of Software Development
Tests, documentation, and code.
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Cloud Calipers
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
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