Google I/O dominates the news today. First, Google launched Android Pay with a good list of partners. Next, Google “Now on Tap” is the next generation of Google Now and it looks amazing. Google also created an Android-based operating system for the internet of things. Lastly, Google’s new cloud test lab lets developers quickly test… Read More Geek Reading May 29, 2015
Recode leads our day with some reporting on Mary Meeker’s internet trends for 2015. The slides are a must read, as they are every year. Google adds app deep linking using goo.gl addresses. This should be a nice boon for mobile developers. In security and operations, Banyan talks about the problem of vulnerabilities in many… Read More Geek Reading May 28, 2015
The Next Web starts our day by reporting on a hack at the IRS where data from over 100,000 taxpayers was likely stolen. Thankfully, it is not a huge number, but the IRS is one place we do not want data stolen from. Martin Fowler revisits the idea of YAGNI (you aren’t gonna need it)… Read More Geek Reading May 27, 2015
Venture Beat leads off today reporting on the announcement that Charter Communications will acquire Time Warner Cable. There is a much greater likelihood that this deal works compared to the Comcast deal. FastML talks about real-time interactive movie recommendations. On Flowing Data, they point us to a fascinating interactive graph where you can look at… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2015
There were a lot of development articles over the weekend. On Building Real Software, they talk about application security and the gaps between builders and defenders. Edmund Kirwan shows us a structural package analysis of Apache Lucene over the years. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups,… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2015
Today we focus on startups and your career. First, on Both Sides of the Table they discuss the best way to explain your startup. Does your startup have a story or a good narrative? Next, Seth Godin talks about continuous learning in your field. Do you know who you should be following or reading in… Read More Geek Reading May 22, 2015
Leading today’s stories is a Logjam. The Next Web reports on a new bug found in SSL called Logjam. Yahoo Labs open-sourced EGADS, a scalable, configurable and novel anomaly detection system. On High Scalability, we have a very good article about scaling demanding queries, high velocity data modifications and fast indexing. There is a lot… Read More Geek Reading May 21, 2015
To start our day, Amazon announced the EC2 Spot Fleet API which allows you to manage spot instances through a simple API. A very cool addition to their offering. First Round Review follows with the difficulty in building engineering team, based on the perspective of Tiho Bajic, CTO of Nitro. Ayende @ Rahien presents a… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2015
Leading off today, Google Cloud Platform lowers their prices and announces the availability of preemptible VMs. These are short-term, volatile instances that are useful in large compute clusters because they can be taken down at any moment. It is an interesting idea and something to watch long term. Amazon AWS did not announce a similar… Read More Geek Reading May 19, 2015
There is lots of good reading from this weekend. First, Venture Beat reports on the Starbucks mobile hack. It is an interesting read to see how security hacks are changing. On StackShare, 500px shares how they serve over 500TB of photos. Lastly, Rust v1.0 is officially released. So, you can now play with Rust and… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2015
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