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  Spring 2019, Vol. 44, No. 1

  In our Spring 2019 issue, we feature articles on the following topics:

  • A POSIX Kernel Written in Go
  • Pocket for Container Storage
  • Noria: A Fast, In-Memory Database
  • Boring Tech Best for SRE
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  Summer 2019, Vol. 44, No. 2

  In our Summer 2019 issue, we feature articles on the following topics:

  • ARM Extensions Catch Memory Bugs/Exploits
  • Interview with Mark Loveless
  • Fast and Efficient RPC
  • Using YAML, Protocol Buffers, and Skycfg
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  Fall 2019, Vol. 44, No. 3

  In our Fall 2019 issue, we focus on topics related to programming, security, and SRE, including the following articles:

  • Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Cloud Functions with gg
  • Making It Easier to Encrypt Your Emails
  • Challenges in Storing Docker Images
  • Reliable by Design: The Importance of Design Review in SRE

2018

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  Spring 2018, Vol. 43, No. 1

  In our Spring 2018 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • Hybrid SMR and a New API
  • Infiltrating an Exploit Market
  • Vulnerabilities and Patching Open Source
  • Finding Flaws in Linux Kernels
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  Summer 2018, Vol. 43, No. 2

  In our Summer 2018 issue, we feature articles on the following topics:

  • Mayhem and Hacking
  • Eusocial Devices
  • Fail-Slow Hardware
  • 25 Years of LISA
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  Fall 2018, Vol. 43, No. 3

  In our Fall 2018 issue, we feature articles on the following topics:

  • Capacity Prediction
  • BeyondCrop: Fleet Management
  • Transactional File System
  • Serverless, Optimized Containers
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  Winter 2018, Vol. 43, No. 4

  In our Winter 2018 issue, we feature articles on the following topics:

  • The Five Stages of SRE
  • Kernel Patches for Meltdown
  • TLS as an Operating System Service
  • The Atlas Cluster Trace Repository

2017

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  Spring 2017, Vol. 42, No. 1

  In our Spring 2017 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • The Linux Kernel Self-Protection Project
  • Interviews with Jeff Mogul and Amit Levy
  • How to Write Secure Parsers
  • Warm Up Your JVMs
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  Summer 2017, Vol. 42, No. 2

  In our Summer 2017 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • How to Fragment Your File System
  • Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance
  • It's Better to Rush Than Wear Out
  • Interviews with Eric Allman, author of sendmail
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  Fall 2017, Vol. 42, No. 3

  In our Fall 2017 issue, we feature the following articles related to Cloud:

  • VFP: A Virtual Switch Platform for Host SDN in the Public Cloud
  • Linux Containers for Fun and Profit in HPC
  • Interview with James Bottomley
  • Knockoff: Cheap Versions in the Cloud
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  Winter 2017, Vol. 42, No. 4

  In our Winter 2017 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • Neural Nets Improve Password Choices
  • Fixing the Bitcoin Blockchain
  • Interview with Peter G. Neumann
  • Psychological Safety in SRE Teams

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  In our Spring 2016 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • Filebench: A Flexible Framework for File System Benchmarking
  • Pivot Tracing: Dynamic Causal Monitoring for Distributed Systems
  • Streaming Systems and Architectures: Kafka, Spark, Storm, and Flink
  • BeyondCorp: Design to Deployment at Google
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  Summer 2016, Vol. 41, No. 2

  In our Summer 2016 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • coz: This Is the Profile You're Looking For
  • Fuzzing Code with AFL
  • Boxify: Bringing Full-Fledged App Sandboxing to Stock Android
  • Serving Data to the Lunatic Fringe: The Evolution of HPC Storage
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  Fall 2016, Vol. 41, No. 3

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  Winter 2016, Vol. 41, No. 4

  In our Winter 2016 issue, we feature the following articles:

  • Your Cores Are Slacking Off—Or Why OS Scheduling Is a Hard Problem
  • Serverless Computation with OpenLambda
  • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Managing Scientific Experiments Like Software
  • An interview with Gordon Lyon, author of the nmap scanning tool.

2015

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  February 2015, Vol. 40, No. 1

  In our February issue, we feature the following articles plus the Conference Reports from USENIX OSDI '14.

  • Measuring the Elusive Working Set in Storage
  • Container Farms and Storage
  • Finding Faults with Error Handlers to Avoid Catastrophic Failures 
  • Nail, A Secure Parser/Generator
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  April 2015, Vol. 40, No. 2

  In our April issue, we focus on Sysadmin and Distributed Computing.

  • Jumping the Queue with QJUMP
  • Working with Zombies
  • Using Selenium from Perl
  • Testing Shell Scripts
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  June 2015, Vol. 40, No. 3

  Our June issue, focuses on File Systems and Storage, Sysadmins, and features a peak at one of the original issues of UNIX News from 1976:

  • Is NFSv4.1 Ready for Prime Time?
  • On Making GPFS Truly General
  • Daemon Management Under Systemd
  • The Systems Engineering Side of Site Reliability Engineering
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  August 2015, Vol. 40, No. 4

  Our August issue, focuses on Security and Sysadmins, and features a peak at one of the original issues of UNIX News from 1976:

  • The Problem with Parsers and How to Secure Them
  • Smartphone Sensor Monitoring
  • What Bugs Live in the Cloud?
  • Unpredictability and Deception as OS Features
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  October 2015, Vol. 40, No. 5

  Our October issue focuses on Operating Systems and Sysadmin, and features a peek at UNIX News from 1977:

  • Trading Latency for Performance Using Distributed Shared Memory
  • An Introduction to Bε-trees and Write-Optimization
  • Being an On-Call Engineer: A Google SRE Perspective
  • It’s Time to End Monolithic Apps for Connected Devices
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  December 2015, Vol. 40, No. 6

  Our December issue focuses on security and also includes an interview about the advent of NVRAM, and the last in the series of articles about USENIX history

  • Ian Foster and Karl Koscher: CAN Bus and Car Security
  • Simson Garfinkel: The Future of Digital Forensics
  • Roel Verdult and Flavio D. Garcia: The Failure of Megamos Crypto
  • Darrell Long: How NVM Changes Everything

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  • /var/log/manager: Message Not Received by Andrew Seely
  • Code Review for System Administrators by Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
  • This World of Ours by James Mickens
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  February 2014, Vol. 39, No. 1

  In our February issue, we focus on File Systems and Sysadmin.

  • HADOOP 2
  • Data Loss Prevention Tools
  • Logging Reports and Dashboards
  • Smart Storage Devices
  • Evolution of Managed Change
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  • To Wash It All Away by James Mickens
  • Fold Time to Navigate Faster by Emma Jane Westby
  • Using the R Software for Log File Analysis by Mihalis Tsoukalos
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  April 2014, Vol. 39, No. 2

  In our April issue, we focus on Sysadmin and Networking:

  • SDN, Beyond the Hyperbole
  • The Case of the Clumsy Kernel
  • System Administration Is Dead
  • I Am Not a Sysadmin
  • Splunk Performance Tuning
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  June 2014, Vol. 39, No. 3

  In our June issue, we feature articles on File Systems and Storage, Cloud, Troubleshooting, and Sysadmin.

  • ~okeanos: Large-Scale Cloud Service Using Ceph
  • Analysis of HDFS under HBase: A Facebook Messages Case Study
  • OpenStack
  • When the Stars Align, and When They Don’t
  • Solving Rsyslog Performance Issues
  • Rock Stars and Shift Schedules
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  August 2014, Vol. 39, No. 4

  In our August issue, we feature articles on Security, Diversity, and Sysadmin, plus the Conference Reports from NSDI '14.

  • USB Insecurity Exposed
  • Security at CERN
  • Build Web Applications with Encrypted Data
  • Hostbased SSH
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  October 2014, Vol. 39, No. 5

  In our October issue, we feature the following articles plus the Conference Reports from ATC '14, ICAC '14, and WiAC '14.

  • Linux Containers
  • Rump Kernels
  • Push on Green
  • Parables for Sysadmins
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  December 2014, Vol. 39, No. 6

  In our December issue, we feature the following articles plus the Conference Reports from USENIX Security '14.

  • Sandboxing with Capsicum
  • Making Offline Cracking Unfeasible
  • Debugging with Failure in Mind
  • Python Constants and Enums

2013

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  February 2013, Volume 38, Number 1

  In the February issue:

  • Flat Datacenter Storage
  • Samba’s Way Toward SMB 3.0
  • Temperature Management in Datacenters: Cranking Up the Thermostat Without Feeling the Heat
  • Allen Wittenauer on Hadoop: An Interview
  • Kadeploy3: Efficient and Scalable Operating System Provisioning for Clusters
  • The Owl Embedded Python Environment: Microcontroller Development for the Modern World
  • Plus columns, book reviews, conference reports, and more
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  April 2013, Volume 38, Number 2

  In the April 2013 issue:

  • Is DevOps the Future of Sysadmin?
  • Theia: Visual Signatures for Problem Diagnosis in Large Hadoop Clusters
  • Cory Lueninghoener on Managing HPC Clusters
  • Wireless Means Radio
  • Improving the Performance of fsck in FreeBSD
  • Analyzing Network Traffic with Chimera
  • Plus columns, book reviews, conference reports, and more
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  • The Saddest Moment by James Mickens
  • The Disambiguator: Learning about Operating Systems by Selena Deckelmann
  • So many filesystems by Rik Farrow
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  June 2013, Volume 38, Number 3

  In our June issue, we focus on File Systems:

  A Study of Linux File System Evolution by Lanyue Lu, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and Shan Lu

  Ted Ts'o on Linux File Systems: An Interview by Rik Farrow

  Shingled Magnetic Recording: Areal Density Increase Requires New Data Management by Tim Feldman and Garth Gibson

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  • Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet's Nest of Deception and Chicanery by James Mickens
  • Monitor the Monitors by Selena Deckelmann
  • Setting Up a Vagrant Workflow by Matt Simmons
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  August 2013, Volume 38, Number 4

  Our August issue focuses on Security:

  • Uncovering Zero-Days
  • Software Liability, a Lawyer's Perspective
  • Setting up Enterprise Logging
  • Rethinking Passwords
  • Plus Python, Perl, inotify, NSDI '13 reports, and more

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  • Sysadmin Tools for Tackling the Cloud by Mark Hinkle
  • Deploying a Python App with Puppet by Spencer Krum and William Van Hevelingen
  • Configuring Your Linux System with the CFEngine Design Center by Diego Zamboni
  • The Slow Winter by James Mickens
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  October 2013, Volume 38, Number 5

  Our October issue dives into system administration:

  • On Leadership
  • Synnefo, Cloud Management System
  • Log Filtering with Rsyslog
  • Clientside SSD and Network Storage
  • Plus Perl, Python, monitoring systems, cyber security, job hunting, and conference reports
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  • Uncertain Infrastructures by Mark Burgess

  • The Night Watch by James Mickens

  • What Every Admin Should Know About Email by Joe Brockmeier
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  December 2013, Volume 38, Number 6

  In our December issue, we focus on Security:

  • Bitcoins
  • The 10-Kilobyte Web Browser
  • DDoS for Hire
  • Trusting PGP
  • Security Event Correlator

2012

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  February 2012, Volume 37, Number 1

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  April 2012, Volume 37, Number 2

  Sysadmin issue, and more, including LISA '11 conference reports.

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  June 2012, Volume 37, Number 3

  Includes articles on storage for cluster applications, CDMI, TCP Incast, HyperDex, Cassandra, and much more, plus conference reports from FAST '12.

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  August 2012, Volume 37, Number 4

  In our August issue, we look at the future of security, passwords for mobile and desktop computers, Mosh, and conference reports from NSDI'12 and LEET'12:

  • ShareMeNot: Balancing Privacy and Functionality of Third-Party Social Widgets
  • Mosh: A State-of-the-Art Good Old-Fashioned Mobile Shell
  • Passwords for Both Mobile and Desktop Computers: ObPwd for Firefox and Android
  • Looking Within to Improve American Cybersecurity 
  • The Future of Security: Criticality, Rejectionists, Risk Tolerance
  • Fast and Interactive Analytics over Hadoop Data with Spark
  • When Disasters Collide: A Many-Fanged Tale of Woe, Coincidence, Patience, and Stress
  • Practical Perl Tools: Taking the XPath Less Traveled
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  October 2012, Volume 37, Number 5

  In the October issue:

  • For Extreme Parallelism, Your OS Is Sooooo Last-Millennium
  • Overview of Multipath TCP
  • VXLAN: Extended Networking to Fit the Cloud
  • HBase Schema Design
  • Jacob Farmer on Managing Research Data
  • Practical Perl Tools: Mind Those Stables, I Mean Files
  • Secrets of the Mulitprocessing Module
  • Reports from the 2012 Annual Technical Conference
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  December 2012, Volume 37, Number 6

  In the December issue:

  • kGuard: Lightweight Kernel Protection
  • Detecting and Tracking the Rise of DGA-Based Malware
  • Anatomy of SIP Attacks
  • AdSplit: Separating Smartphone Advertising from Applications
  • The Great Firewall of China: How It Blocks Tor and Why It Is Hard to Pinpoint
  • Helping Users Create Better Passwords
  • ReDeBug: Finding Unpatched Code Clones in Entire OS Distributions
  • Plus conference reports, columns, book reviews, and more

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