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Network latency in mobile software has a large impact on user experience, with potentially severe economic consequences. Prefetching and caching have been shown effective in reducing the latencies in browser-based systems. However, those techniques cannot be directly applied to t…
Debugging microservice systems involves the deployment and manipulation of microservice systems on a containerized environment and faces unique challenges due to the high complexity and dynamism of microservices. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose a debugging …
Developers discuss software architecture and concrete source code implementations on a regular basis, be it on question-answering sites, online chats, mailing lists or face to face. In many cases, there is more than one way of solving a programming task. Which way is best may be …
We introduce a new principle, the open authorial principle, that characterises desirable properties of languages supporting networks of authors. We survey the growth in generosity of authorial systems, in a progression starting with traditional object-orientation, continuing thro…
There is a paradigm shift in web-based services towards conversational user interfaces. Companies increasingly offer conversational interfaces, or chatbots, to let their customers or employees interact with their services in a more flexible and mobile manner. Unfortunately, this …
Collections are commonly implemented as libraries by data structure experts, and are relied on heavily by application developers. The expert’s task is to implement a wide range of collections, and the application developer’s task is to pick an appropriate collection for each usag…
Approaches for programming language design used commonly in the research community today center around theoretical and performance-oriented evaluation. Recently, researchers have been considering more approaches to language design, including the use of quantitative and qualitativ…
We present an expressive, concise, and extendable domain specific language for planning of assembly systems, such as industrial human robot cooperation. Increased flexibility requirements in manufacturing processes call for more automation at the description and planning stages o…
Our community believes that new domain-specific languages should be as general as possible to increase their impact. However, I argue that we should stop claiming generality for new domain-specific languages. Instead, we should document how domain-specific language based software…
Effect handling is a way to structure and scope side-effects which is gaining popularity as an alternative to monads in purely functional programming languages. Languages with support for effect handling allow the programmer to define idioms for state, exception handling, asynchr…
Developers of modern distributed systems continuously face the impossibility result proved by the CAP theorem. In a nutshell, the theorem states that a partition-tolerant system can either guarantee consistency or availability. Most distributed programming languages implicitly ma…
Live programming is an activity in which the programmer edits code while observing the result of the program. It has been exercised mainly for pedagogical and artistic purposes, where outputs of a program are not straightforwardly imagined. While most live programming environment…
As modern computation platforms become increasingly complex, their programming interfaces are increasingly difficult to use. This complexity is especially inappropriate given the relatively simple core functionality that many of the computations implement. We present a new approa…
Abstraction is broadly considered a key asset in the making of software. However, the author finds that uncritical belief in abstraction puts software development at a substantial risk of failure. His essay combines some personal observations with more general concerns regarding …
Interactive information retrieval services, such as enterprise search and document search, must provide relevant results with consistent, low response times in the face of rapidly growing data sets and query loads. These growing demands have led researchers to consider a wide ran…
Over the past decade, many programming languages and systems for parallel-computing have been developed, including Cilk, Fork/Join Java, Habanero Java, Parallel Haskell, Parallel ML, and X10. Although these systems raise the level of abstraction at which parallel code are written…
Concurrent sets with range query operations are highly desirable in applications such as in-memory databases. However, few set implementations offer range queries. Known techniques for augmenting data structures with range queries (or operations that can be used to build range qu…
This work proposes a low-overhead half-barrier pattern to schedule fine-grain parallel loops and considers its integration in the Intel OpenMP and Cilkplus schedulers. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the scheduling overhead of our techniques is 43% lower than Intel Open…
The complexity of shared memory systems is becoming more relevant as the number of memory domains increases, with different access latencies and bandwidth rates depending on the proximity between the cores and the devices containing the data. In this context, techniques to manage…
Scientific applications with single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) computations show considerable performance improvements when run on today's graphics processing units (GPUs). However, the existence of data dependences across thread blocks may significantly impact the speedup…