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The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.
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Opening Up the Baseboard Management Controller
If the CPU is the brain of the board, the BMC is the brain stem.
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The Reliability of Enterprise Applications
Understanding enterprise reliability.
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Hack for Hire
Investigating the emerging black market of retail email account hacking services.
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API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
Application programming interfaces speak louder than words.
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Identity by Any Other Name
The complex cacophony of intertwined systems.
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Research for Practice: Edge Computing
Scaling resources within multiple administrative domains.
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Understanding Database Reconstruction Attacks on Public Data
These attacks on statistical databases are no longer a theoretical danger.
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Corp to Cloud: Google's Virtual Desktops
How Google moved its virtual desktops to the cloud.
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Research for Practice: FPGAs in Datacenters
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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Titus: Introducing Containers to the Netflix Cloud
Approaching container adoption in an already cloud-native infrastructure.
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Network Applications Are Interactive
The network era requires new models, with interactions instead of algorithms.
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Abstracting the Geniuses Away from Failure Testing
Ordinary users need tools that automate the selection of custom-tailored faults to inject.
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The Calculus of Service Availability
You're only as available as the sum of your dependencies.
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Research For Practice: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts; Hardware For Deep Learning
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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