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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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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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Is Persistent Memory Persistent?
A simple and inexpensive test of failure-atomic update mechanisms.
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To Catch a Failure: The Record-and-Replay Approach to Debugging
A discussion with Robert O'Callahan, Kyle Huey, Devon O'Dell, and Terry Coatta.
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The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.
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Beyond the 'Fix-It' Treadmill
The use of post-incident artifacts in high-performing organizations.
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Revealing the Critical Role of Human Performance in Software
It's time to appreciate the human side of Internet-facing software systems.
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