Today is devoted solely to all things Amazon as they announced a pile of fun. AWS CodeCommit, Amazon’s GitHub alternative, is now publicly available. AWS CodePipeline is Amazon’s version of continuous delivery. AWS API Gateway is hard to explain, but it is a mix of a development platform and infrastructure needed to run an API. AWS Service Catalog allows you to create and launch a “stack” of services. VentureBeat reported on AWS Device Farm, which allows you to test apps on Android and FireOS devices.

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Startups, Career and Process

• Starting from scratch: How do you build a world-class research lab? | Ars Technica
• How Not to Make Your Engineer’s Life Completely Terrible | Charlie Deets
• The Computer Science Pipeline & Diversity Part 2 – Some positive signs & looking towards the future | Google Research

Design and Development

• Go, Open Source, Community | The Go Blog
• Exploring Microservices Architecture on Heroku | Java Code Geeks
• Announcing XHP-JS: Building efficient user interface components with Hack, React, and XHP | Facebook Code

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Production postmortem: The case of the infected cluster | Ayende @ Rahien
• Fighting Cancer: The Unexpected Benefit Of Open Sourcing Our Code | CloudFlare

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Integer Matrices | Graphical Linear Algebra

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• R: dplyr – Error: cannot modify grouping variable | Mark Needham
• The Evolution of Database Schemas using SQL + NoSQL | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• DevOpsCulture | Martin Fowler

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• 9-Jul-2015: How RSA works. | Dennis Yurichev
• Estimate of Americans Hit by Government Personnel Data Hack Skyrockets | re/code

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Now Available – AWS CodeCommit | AWS Official Blog
• Now Available – AWS CodePipeline | AWS Official Blog
• Now Available – AWS Service Catalog | AWS Official Blog
• Amazon API Gateway – Build and Run Scalable Application Backends | AWS Official Blog
• Amazon Web Services launches Device Farm to test apps on Android and Fire OS smartphones and tablets | VentureBeat

Fun and Other stuff

• Netflix and the Conservation of Attractive Profits | Stratechery by Ben Thompson
• American Express Launches Its Own PayPal Alternative | re/code

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 9, 2015 (#2050) | Morning Dew