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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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Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
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Research for Practice: Toward a Network of Connected Things
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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
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Bitcoin's Underlying Incentives
The unseen economic forces that govern the Bitcoin protocol.
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Operational Excellence in April Fools' Pranks
Being funny is serious work.
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Monitoring in a DevOps World
Perfect should never be the enemy of better.
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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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Research For Practice: Vigorous Public Debates in Academic Computer Science
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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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Research For Practice: Technology For Underserved Communities; Personal Fabrication
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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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Small-Data Computing: Correct Calculator Arithmetic
Rounding errors are usually avoidable, and sometimes we can afford to avoid them.
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Research For Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems; Programming By Examples
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