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The Calculus of Service Availability
You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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Data Sketching
The approximate approach is often faster and more efficient.
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The Flame Graph
This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging.
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Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
Sometimes all you need is the right language.
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The Verification of a Distributed System
A practitioner's guide to increasing confidence in system correctness.
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How to De-Identify Your Data
Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
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Challenges of Memory Management on Modern NUMA Systems
Optimizing NUMA systems applications with Carrefour.
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Testing Web Applications with State Objects
Use states to drive your tests.
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Go Static or Go Home
In the end, dynamic systems are simply less secure.
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JavaScript and the Netflix User Interface
Conditional dependency resolution.
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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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Undergraduate Software Engineering
Addressing the needs of professional software development.
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Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple
If you see something, say something.
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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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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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Provenance in Sensor Data Management
A cohesive, independent solution for bringing provenance to scientific research.
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The Software Inferno
Dante's tale, as experienced by a software architect.
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