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The Calculus of Service Availability
You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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Non-Volatile Storage
Implications of the datacenter's shifting center.
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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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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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A File System All Its Own
Flash memory has come a long way and it is time for software to catch up.
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FPGA Programming for the Masses
The programmability of FPGAs must improve if they are to be part of mainstream computing.
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Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
While the ubiquitous SSD shares many features with the hard-disk drive, under the surface they are completely different.
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Fault Injection in Production
Making the case for resilience testing.
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A Guided Tour of Data-Center Networking
A good user experience depends on predictable performance within the data-center network.
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You Don't Know Jack About Shared Variables or Memory Models
Data races are evil.
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Abstraction in Hardware System Design
Applying lessons from software languages to hardware languages using Bluespec SystemVerilog.
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Injecting Errors for Fun and Profit
Error-detection and correction features are only as good as our ability to test them.
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Principles of Robust Timing Over the Internet
The key to synchronizing clocks over networks is taming delay variability.
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Triple-Parity RAID and Beyond
As hard-drive capacities continue to outpace their throughput, the time has come for a new level of RAID.
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Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems
All revision-control systems come with complicated sets of trade-offs. How do you find the best match between tool and team?
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Network Front-End Processors, Yet Again
The history of NFE processors sheds light on the trade-offs involved in designing network stack software.
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Hard-Disk Drives: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
New drive technologies and increased capacities create new categories of failure modes that will influence system designs.
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CTO Storage Roundtable, Part Two
Leaders in the storage industry ponder upcoming technologies and trends.
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The Rise and Fall of CORBA
There's a lot we can learn from CORBA's mistakes.12