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The Science of Managing Data Science
Lessons learned managing a data science research team.
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Parallel Processing with
A simple method of writing a collaborative system.
Parallel Processing with Promises
A simple method of writing a collaborative system.
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Go Static or Go Home
In the end, dynamic systems are simply less secure.
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Securing Network Time Protocol
Crackers discover how to use NTP as a weapon for abuse.
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
Soon every company will be a software company.
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Evolution of the Product Manager
Better education needed to develop the discipline.
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Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
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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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Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free
How to generate funding for free and open source software.
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Who Must You Trust?
You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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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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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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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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