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In the late 1980s, while most Soviet engineers focused on missile guidance systems and space telemetry, a young cryptography graduate at the KGB’s Higher School discovered something peculiar…

In an era when most database researchers content themselves with incremental optimizations, Andy Pavlo dared to ask a radical question: what if databases could tune and manage themselves…

Every time a Java application runs at near-native speed — whether it is powering a massive financial trading platform, serving millions of web requests through an application server,…

Before you could type a few letters into your browser’s search bar and see suggestions from dozens of different search engines, before OAuth let you log in to…

Few careers in technology span such a dramatic arc as that of Charlie Bell. He began writing software that calculated payload layouts for NASA’s Space Shuttle missions, spent…

In the world of front-end web development, few engineers have shaped the daily workflow of millions of developers quite like Paul Irish. As a Chrome DevTools engineer at…

In 2002, a 17-year-old intern at Netscape sat staring at a bloated, crashing web browser and decided he had had enough. While most teenagers were worrying about college…

In 1985, a young computer scientist named Danny Hillis stood in front of a room full of skeptical engineers and proposed something that most of them considered impossible,…

In 2004, a young performance engineer at Sun Microsystems was staring at a problem that had tormented system administrators for decades: a production server was slow, and nobody…