A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Blockchain Universe
Blockchain remains a mystery, despite its growing acceptance.
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CodeFlow: Improving the Code Review Process at Microsoft
A discussion with Jacek Czerwonka, Michaela Greiler, Christian Bird, Lucas Panjer, and Terry Coatta
SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps
Automation and a little discipline allow better testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk.
Research for Practice: Security for the Modern Age
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface.
How to Live in a Post-Meltdown and -Spectre World
Learn from the past to prepare for the next battle.
Research for Practice: Knowledge Base Construction in the Machine-Learning Era
Three critical design points: Joint learning, weak supervision, and new representations.
Tracking and Controlling Microservice Dependencies
Dependency management is a crucial part of system and software design.
Mind Your State for Your State of Mind
The interactions between storage and applications can be complex and subtle.
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
The Secret Formula for Choosing the Right Next Role
The best careers are not defined by titles or résumé bullet points.
Workload Frequency Scaling Law: Derivation and Verification
Workload scalability has a cascade relation via the scale factor.
Research for Practice: Prediction-Serving Systems
What happens when we wish to actually deploy a machine learning model to production?
Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems
Different uses for read-optimized B-trees and write-optimized LSM-trees.
Research for Practice: Toward a Network of Connected Things
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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