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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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The SPACE of Developer Productivity
There's more to it than you think.
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Toward Confidential Cloud Computing
Extending hardware-enforced cryptographic protection to data while in use.
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Battery Day
A closer look at the technology that makes portable electronics possible.
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Everything VPN Is New Again
The 24-year-old security model has found a second wind.
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A Second Conversation with Werner Vogels
The Amazon CTO sits with Tom Killalea to discuss designing for evolution at scale.
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Out-of-This-World Additive Manufacturing
From thingamabobs to rockets, 3D printing takes many forms.
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Differential Privacy: The Pursuit of Protections by Default
A discussion with Miguel Guevara, Damien Desfontaines, Jim Waldo, and Terry Coatta
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The Time I Stole $10,000 from Bell Labs
Why DevOps encourages us to celebrate outages.
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The Identity in Everyone's Pocket
Keeping users secure through their smartphones.
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Security Analysis of SMS as a Second Factor of Authentication
The challenges of multifactor authentication based on SMS, including cellular security deficiencies, SS7 exploits, and SIM swapping.
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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
Emulating the efficiency of in-person conversations.
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Data on the Outside versus Data on the Inside
Data kept outside SQL has different characteristics from data kept inside.
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
Hitting a nerve with field-programmable gate arrays.
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Debugging Incidents in Google's Distributed Systems
How experts debug production issues in complex distributed systems.
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Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future
The evolution of tricky user interfaces.
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