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 not worry about what will change and break your code.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Startups, Career and Process

• Some notes on Taking the Temperature | allan kelly
• Obtaining a Thorough CS Background Online | Atomic Object
• Stop Saying “Just” | Javalobby

Development

• Why RavenDB isn’t written in F#, or the cost of the esoteric choice | Ayende @ Rahien
• Integrating External APIs into your Meteor.js Application | Javalobby
• Exceptions in Lambdas: An Elegant Solution to a Bit of a Mess | Java Code Geeks
• Announcing Rust 1.0 | The Rust Programming Language Blog
• Introducing Firebase Queue | Firebase
• Fun with JavaScript on the JVM | Javalobby
• Getting Started with Test-Driven Development – My Left Hand | Javalobby
• Go: A Surprising Edge Case Concerning append and Slice Aliasing | JJinuxLand
• How I learned to stop worrying and love React | First Do It
• Tries and Lexers | ircmaxell’s blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How 500px serves up over 500TB of high res photos | StackShare

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• append only finger tree | krl/notes

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Estimated age based on your name | Flowing Data
• MongoDB’s Flexible Schema: How to Fix Write Amplification | Javalobby
• Why the SQL Standard does not need another way to do GROUP BY | The Ubiquitous Database
• Neo4j: BBC football live text fouls graph | Mark Needham

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn | Rachel By The Bay

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Starbucks attack shows hackers are finding easy money on mobile | Venture Beat
• A Look into Netty’s Recent Security Update (CVE­-2015­-2156) | LinkedIn Engineering
• The importance of strong and fast cryptography | pfSense Digest

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Now Available – AWS Directory Service API & CLI (Bonus: CloudTrail Integration) | AWS Official Blog
• Why You Should Use Cloud Services | Javalobby

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – May 15, 2015 (#2015) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1502 | A Fresh Cup