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 good perspective on accepting community contributions and programming language selection.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Accepting code from the community means accepting full responsibility for all time | Ayende @ Rahien
- Is Predictability Really What We Want? | Javalobby
- Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem | First Round Review
Development
- Trees, Quil and Random | nbeloglazov blog
- Toward Quality Automation in the World of Continuous Everything | Javalobby
- Domain-Specific Languages vs. Notation | Atomic Object
- Implementing Filter and Bakery Locks in Java | Java Code Geeks
- The Transition to Ember 2.0 in Detail | Ember.js
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Persistent Vector Performance Summarised | polymatheia
- Browser Monitoring for GitHub.com | GitHub Engineering
- Paper: FlashGraph: Processing Billion-Node Graphs on an Array of Commodity SSDs | High Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Streaming Data into HPCC Using Java | Javalobby
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Schema, part 1 | Confluent
- Neo4j: Finding all shortest paths | Mark Needham
Enterprise and Web Content Management
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- What’s wrong with pcap filters? | Juho Snellman
- Visualizing and Tracking Your Microservices | Javalobby
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS | AWS Official Blog
- Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet API – Manage Thousands of Spot Instances with one Request | AWS Official Blog
Link Collections
- The Daily Six Pack: May 19, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
- Dew Drop – May 19, 2015 (#2017) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1504 | A Fresh Cup
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