How fast is the network? The speed at which real users can download content at different locations and at different times is an important metric for service providers. Knowledge o...
Alexandre Gerber, Jeffrey Pang, Oliver Spatscheck,...
We conducted interviews with sixteen members of teams that worked across global time zone differences. Despite time zone differences of about eight hours, collaborators still foun...
Short URLs have become ubiquitous. Especially popular within social networking services, short URLs have seen a significant increase in their usage over the past years, mostly du...
Over the past few years, the discussion between the two major architectural styles for designing and implementing Web services, the RPC-oriented approach and the resourceoriented ...
Synchronization is often necessary in parallel computing, but it can create delays whenever the receiving processor is idle, waiting for the information to arrive. This is especia...