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 every NBA team as they were rated over the past few decades.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- Charter Communications acquires Time Warner Cable for $55.1B | Venture Beat
Startups, Career and Process
- the responsibility we have as software engineers | Benlog
- How to Start to Solve the Problems of Your Product Development Organization | Agile Zone
- Some Advice On Becoming a Lead Developer | Making the Complex Simple
Development
- Python: Joining multiple generators/iterators | Mark Needham
- What is Garbage Collection? | Java Code Geeks
- How to Build a Symbol Solver for Java, in Clojure | Javalobby
- Designing For Explicit Choice | Smashing Magazine
- Rust traits for developer friendly libraries | Ben Ashford
- Using Monads in C++ to Solve Constraints: 4. Refactoring | Bartosz Milewski
- Puzzler: nested computeIfAbsent | Vanilla Java
- Interpreter, Compiler, JIT | Nick Desaulniers
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Appknox Architecture – Making the Switch from AWS to the Google Cloud | High Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- How does Hibernate READ_WRITE CacheConcurrencyStrategy work | Vlad Mihalcea
- Every NBA team rated over several decades | Flowing Data
- Introduction to Spark Data Source API – Part 1 | Madhukar’s Blog
- CAP: if all you have is a timeout, everything looks like a partition | This long run
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Convert Any Server to a Docker Container | zwischenzugs
- My experience of using NixOps as an Ansible user | We are wizards
Link Collections
- ReSharper Ultimate Bug Fix – The Daily Six Pack | Dirk Strauss
- Double Shot #1508 | A Fresh Cup
Regular Geek 