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 their apps on several top Android devices for free. You can look at any major tech news site for this information, but the coverage at Tech Crunch was top notch.

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

Top Stories

• The Great Decoupling | AVC
• Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million | Feld Thoughts
• Google Takes Another Shot At Mobile Payments With Android Pay | TechCrunch
• Google Reveals Plan To Get Android Powering Internet Of Things Devices | TechCrunch
• Google ‘Now on Tap’ Makes it Easy to Get Contextual Answers | The Next Web
• Google’s New Cloud Test Lab Lets Developers Quickly Test Their Apps On Top Android Devices For Free | TechCrunch

Startups, Career and Process

• Searching for Signal: The how and why of financial models for startups | Paul Bennetts
• Journeying Towards #NoEstimates | Javalobby

Development

• A Few Thoughts on Unit Test Scaffolding | Javalobby
• Optimizing your JavaScript with Functional Programming | Javalobby
• Why Mobile First Really is API First: McKinsey’s South Korean E-Commerce Insights | Javalobby
• Data, code, and regulation | John D. Cook
• The evolution of Rust | Lambda the Ultimate
• Using JSON Web Tokens to Authenticate JavaScript Front-Ends on Rails | Zac Stewart
• Product Development is a Trust Fall | Javalobby
• The drawbacks of post-processing | Broken Links
• Android M Developer Preview & Tools | Android Developers Blog

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Couchbase Server Hits One Million Writes Per Second with 50 Nodes of Google Compute Engine | Google Cloud Platform

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Video games, Sentiment Analysis and Twitter | Melody Wolk
• Introduction to Neural Machine Translation with GPUs (part 1) | Parallel Forall
• Stanford engineers’ breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers | Stanford Engineering

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Rethinking database schema with RDF and Ontology | Java Code Geeks
• Indexing Common Crawl Metadata on Amazon EMR Using Cascading and Elasticsearch | Amazon AWS

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1511 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – May 28, 2015 (#2023) | Morning Dew
• Visual Studio WebPack – The Daily Six Pack: May 29, 2015 | Dirk Strauss