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Winter 2020, Vol. 45, No. 4

Fall 2020, Vol. 45, No. 3


In our Fall 2020 issue, we focus on topics related to systems, programming, open source, and SRE, including the following articles:

  • An Empirical Guide to the Behavior and Use of Scalable Persistent Memory
  • Interview with Ion Stoica
  • Open Source Project Health
  • Beneath the SURFace: An MRI-like View into the Life of a 21st-Century Datacenter

Summer 2020, Vol. 45, No. 2


In our Summer 2020 issue, we focus on topics related to file systems and storage, security, programming, and SRE, including the following articles:

  • A Study of SSD Reliability in Large Scale Enterprise Storage Deployments
  • Interview with Natalie Silvanoviche
  • Anomalies in Linux Processor Use
  • Decision-Making Using Service Level Objectives

Spring 2020, Vol. 45, No. 1


In our Spring 2020 issue, we focus on topics related to systems, AI/ML, SRE, and programming, including the following articles:

  • File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution
  • Artificial Intelligence: Ethics in Practice
  • Are We All on the Same Page? Let’s Fix That
  • Interview with Mary Ann Horton

Winter 2019, Vol. 44, No. 4


In our Winter 2019 issue, we focus on topics related to security, including the following articles:

  • Monitoring both mistakes and malicious behavior in BGP
  • Analyzing the usability of the Android permission system
  • Uncovering added devices in modern cars with CANvas
  • Kirill Levchenko interview about the testbed for examining large passenger aircraft security

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