We have lots to share today! First, Expedia buys Orbitz for $1.6 billion. This is news more because it is so rare to see purchases of that magnitude. There are a few good articles on some advanced concepts, the central limit theorem, bayes theorem and paxos, a consensus algorithm. These concepts drive a lot of things that power some of your favorite sites, so give them a read. We also have a number of articles in the data category. Ayende @ Rahien continues the performance series, this time looking at faceting data. Netflix also gives us a primer on how they determine what is trending.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
Career and Process
- What do I do now? The startup lifecycle | VentureBeat
- Startup Parenthood | The Data Point by RJMetrics
Development
- Fault Tolerance in Go | Java Code Geeks
- Connascence of Value | Javalobby
- Why 12 Factor Application Patterns, Microservices and CloudFoundry Matter | Javalobby
- Crowdcrafting stack | Daniel Lombrana
- A JAXB Nuance: String Versus Enum from Enumerated Restricted XSD String | Inspired by Actual Events
- There are Gophers with Gifts at Fog Creek | Fog Creek Blog
- Locust | truveris
- Memrefuting | Shtetl-Optimized
- NoSQL with Hibernate OGM – Part two: Querying for your data | Java Code Geeks
- The Incredible Rewards Of Creating a Programming Language | Mike Driven Development
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- An Introduction to the Central Limit Theorem | Atomic Spin
- May Bayes Theorem Be With You | Stitch Fix Technology
- Paxos, a really beautiful protocol for distributed consensus | Good Math/Bad Math
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Facets of information, Part I | Ayende @ Rahien
- Visualization constraints | Flowing Data
- A tale of two clusters: Mesos and YARN | O’Reilly Radar
- Identifying Useful Info From MySQL Row-based Binary Logs | Javalobby
- What’s trending on Netflix? | The Netflix Tech Blog
- Paper summary: Perspectives on the CAP theorem | Metadata
- An Introduction on How to Make Beautiful Charts With R and ggplot2 | Max Woolf’s Blog
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer | WIRED
- Decrypting TLS Browser Traffic With Wireshark – The Easy Way! | Jim Shaver
IaaS, PaaS and Saas
- Managed Policies for AWS Identity & Access Management | AWS Official Blog
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – February 12, 2015 (#1953) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1474 | A Fresh Cup
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