Communications of the ACM
Latest Practice
From Communications of the ACM
Why SRE Documents Matter
How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.
From Communications of the ACM
Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: Knowledge Base Construction in the Machine-Learning Era
Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.
From Communications of the ACM
Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.
From Communications of the ACM
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
From Communications of the ACM
Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.
From Communications of the ACM
Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
From Communications of the ACM
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
From Communications of the ACM
Designing Cluster Schedulers for Internet-Scale Services
Embracing failures for improving availability.
From Communications of the ACM
Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me
A look at JavaScript libraries in the wild.
From Communications of the ACM
Research for Practice: Cluster Scheduling for Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
From Communications of the ACM
Canary Analysis Service
Automated canarying quickens development, improves production safety, and helps prevent outages.
From Communications of the ACM
DevOps Delivers
The DevOps methodology has come of age in the past several years, and organizations are adopting key DevOps practices to transform their software practices.
From Communications of the ACM
Continuous Delivery Sounds Great, but Will It Work Here?
It's not magic, it just requires continuous, daily improvement at all levels.
From Communications of the ACM
Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths)
Complex socio-technical systems are hard; film at 11.
From Communications of the ACM