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Robber Barons understand technical debt too

The Night They Drove the Price of Electricity Down

Interface abusers

Cpusets (2004)

Vx32: Lightweight, User-Level Sandboxing on the X86

CONIKS: Bringing Key Transparency to End Users [pdf]

The expectation of random Fourier features via trigonometric identities

Consistency Without Borders

Inductive Power on the Cheap – Philips Imageo Teatlight Teardown

Generating Good Syntax Errors (2010)

Kubernetes from the ground up: the API server

An approach to systems verification (1989) [pdf]

Streaming Anomaly Detection Using Randomized Matrix Sketching [pdf]

A new approach to property based testing

Migrating bajillions of database records at Stripe

UpUp: a tiny script that makes sure your site is always there for your users

Please don't block everything but Googlebot in robots.txt

Tests' Influence on Design

Excuse-timer: Call yourself to get out of things

Monorepos