I have talked about human filters and my plan for digital curation. These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my daily reading. These items are a combination of tech business news, development news and programming tools and techniques. You will note that some of the formatting has changed, and that is due to the change in my process. Formatting, and the information presented, is likely to change a bit as I develop my new process.

• In Defense of Selling Out
• How to get auto scaling of Google Compute Engine “just right”
• 3.5x Increase In Performance with One Line Change
• 500 MPH | What If?
• The Daily Six Pack: October 8, 2013
• Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox
• Time is not money: Thinking about it makes you a better person
• Lock Processing Logic by Customer
• Joining a Software Startup Right out of School
• Getting Started with Responsive Web Design Development Techniques
• Swagger: Make Developers Love Working With Your REST API
• Dew Drop – October 8, 2013 (#1,640)
• Learn from Offshoring Your Development Team while Staying Local
• With Payment Code, PayPal believes it’s cracked the mobile payments enigma
• CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street
• IBM researcher can decipher your personality from looking at 200 of your tweets
• 500 queries per second with MySQL 5.7
• F1 and Spanner Holistically Compared
• Developing on the Bleeding Edge
• Samsung knows its software can’t compete, but it’s about to make some huge moves in an effort to change that

I hope you enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on those sites.