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Building on Shaky Ground - ACM Queue

We owe it to the world to make systems work safely and reliably. Dear KV, By now, I'm sure you've seen the CrowdStrike news, and I can't help but imagine you have opinions about what really went wrong to cause so many problems. The news, both tech and nontech, is full of explanations of what went...

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It's Time to Make Software Accessible - ACM Queue

A blind person, let's call her Alice, walks from her home to a café to telework. Alice uses a white cane and her orientation and mobility skills to navigate independently. Her cane helps her know she has reached an intersection, thanks to the incline of the curb cut and the truncated domes that...

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The State of Digital Accessibility - ACM Queue

If you are new to digital accessibility, and even if you are not, it can be difficult to stay abreast of the big picture—not least because disability is an expansive category, and the tech industry moves fast. So, we asked a team of experts—Sheri Byrne-Haber, Jamal Mazrui, Carlos Muncharaz, and...

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Retrofitting: Principles and Practice - ACM Queue

Saddling time-tested workhorse software with unexpected new burdens is often the best way to seize an opportunity or trounce a perennial annoyance, but adding radically new functionality to production code isn't easy. A practical case study spotlights principles that help us bolt new tricks onto...

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The Drunken Plagiarists - ACM Queue

After more than a year of hearing people talk about AI and co-pilots, I finally tried one on a small project. I even paid for the privilege of doing so, figuring that the paid version would be superior to the free one. But what I have found confuses me, and I'm wondering if you too have tried any...

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Simulation: An Underutilized Tool in Distributed Systems - ACM Queue

Not easy but not impossible, and worth it for the insights it can provide David R. Morrison The mass shift to cloud-based infrastructure in the latter half of the 2010s, spurred by technologies like Kubernetes and the ease of access to cloud-computing resources, promised huge benefits for...

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Systems Correctness Practices at AWS - ACM Queue

AWS (Amazon Web Services) strives to deliver reliable services that customers can trust completely. This demands maintaining the highest standards of security, durability, integrity, and availability—with systems correctness serving as the cornerstone for achieving these priorities. An April 2015...

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Intermediate Representations for the Datacenter Computer - ACM Queue

We have reached a point where distributed computing is ubiquitous. In-memory application data size is outstripping the capacity of individual machines, necessitating its partitioning over clusters of them; online services have high availability requirements, which can be met only by deploying...

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