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It Takes a Community: The Open Source Challenge
A discussion with Reynold Xin, Wes McKinney, Alan Gates, and Chris McCubbin.
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson
The history of Berkeley DB.
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Designing UIs for Static-Analysis Tools
Evaluating tool design guidelines with SWAN.
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Digging into Big Provenance (with SPADE)
A user interface for querying provenance.
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WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform
What was once a way to bring audio and video to the Web has expanded into more use cases than we could ever imagine.
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Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up
A discussion with Theo Schlossnagle, Justin Sheehy, and Chris McCubbin.
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
The evolution of tricky user interfaces.
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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Space Time Discontinuum
Combining data from many sources may cause painful delays.
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Write Amplification vs. Read Perspiration
The trade-offs between write and read.
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Extract, Shoehorn, and Load
Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home.
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Achieving Digital Permanence
The many challenges to maintaining stored information and ways to overcome them.
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Net Neutrality: Unexpected Solution to Blockchain Scaling
Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.
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CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
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