Today is another slow day as we come out of the holiday weekend. Two security related stories lead the day. As reported by TechCrunch, the security group Hacking Team was hacked. This is not entirely surprising given their high profile in the security space, and no company is perfect. This leads us into a nice rant on lvh, where they talk about the companies that have had breaches and how they take security seriously. The basic idea is that security is hard and sometimes people make mistakes.

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

Design and Development

• Scaling with Docker Swarm, Docker Compose and Consul (Part 1/4) – A Taste of What Is To Come | Java Code Geeks
• Why Invest in Tools? | Lee Byron
• A Pythonist getting Rusty these days… (Part 1) | Arrow of Code
• The ES6 feature I’m most excited about | Nick Justice
• A Few Valid Reasons to Reject a Bug Fix | Java Code Geeks
• An Exercise in Profiling a Go Program | ThornyDev
• Escape the trap! Avoiding traps in software development with systems thinking | Stuart Rimell
• Apache Cordova: after 10 months, I won’t be using it anymore | Arnaud Valensi
• Unit-Testing cron handlers in Google App Engine | Google Cloud Platform
• Avoid Naming at All Costs | LispCast
• An evaluation of Erlang global process registries: meet Syn | Roberto Ostinelli
• Visualizing Garbage Collection in Ruby and Python | Codeship

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The Effect of Co-ordinated Omission – Measure loopback latency using a simple NIO client/server | Java Code Geeks

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• See, Think, Do, Care Wining Combo: Content + Marketing + Measurement! | Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Hacking Team, Which Sells Surveillance Tech To Governments, Exposed By Major Hack | TechCrunch
• They do take security seriously | lvh

Fun and Other stuff

• A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom | Less Wrong Discussion
• How Do We Explain the Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT?  | High Scalability

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: July 6, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – July 6, 2015 (#2047) | Morning Dew