On the hourglass model
The work
| Title | On the hourglass model |
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| Authors | Micah Beck |
| Type | article |
| Year | 2019 |
| Citekey | beck2019hourglass |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Communications of the ACM |
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| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 48--57 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/3274770 |
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Access
| Link it arrived with | https://doi.org/10.1145/3274770 |
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Abstract
Used in the design of the Internet and Unix, the layered services of the hourglass model have enabled viral adoption and deployment scalability.
Copy held
| Kind | PDF, 3.7 MB |
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| Retrieved | 2026-08-05 |
| Held | local, for personal reference |
Where this came from
| How it got here | already cited · cited in bibtex |
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| First seen | 2026-08-04 |
| Standing | endorsed |
| Approved | 2026-08-07 |
Cite it as
@article{beck2019hourglass,
title = {On the hourglass model},
author = {Micah Beck},
year = {2019},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
volume = {62},
number = {7},
pages = {48--57},
doi = {10.1145/3274770},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3274770},
}
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