It is often assumed that developers’ view of their system and its environment is always consistent with everyone else’s; in practice, this assumption can be false, as the deve...
In a multi-developer project, team collaboration is essential for the success of the project. When team members are spread across different locations, informal interactions are lo...
We present a low-cost, decentralized algorithm for ID management in distributed hash tables (DHTs) managed by a dynamic set of hosts. Each host is assigned an ID in the unit inter...
Existing package and system configuration management tools suffer from an imperative model, where system administration actions such as upgrading packages or changes to system con...
Applications increasingly make use of the distributed platform that the World Wide Web provides ? be it as a Software-as-a-Service such as salesforce.com, an application infrastru...
Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal Bhattacharya, Lili...