Leading today is more cool news about Pluto. Reuters reports on how Pluto has big mountains and other interesting features. Generally, the whole “real, close pictures of Pluto” thing is fascinating. Microsoft talks about support for Web Components in their Edge browser. The gist of the story is, we will support some things now and some things later. Thankfully, they provide technical reasons for why, which is different than the IE days.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
Startups, Career and Process
- Coping with context-switching madness | kreeben
- How Detailed should the Product Backlog be? | Java Code Geeks
- Product Manager, Product Owner, or Business Analyst? | Johanna Rothman
Design and Development
- Instagram co-founder on the power of search, and co-engineering inside the Facebook empire | S C A L E
- Microsoft Edge and Web Components | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
- Three Dead Protocols | ugh blog dot jpg etc
- Dark UX patterns are bad for your business | Let’s Talk Design
- Killing Off Wasabi – Part 2 | Fog Creek Blog
- Using ECMAScript 6 features today | Atlassian Developers
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Production postmortem: The case of the intransigent new database | Ayende @ Rahien
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- 6 reasons why I like KeystoneML | O’Reilly Radar
- Owing Graph Minimization | Anthony Zhang
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Neo4j: The football transfers graph | Mark Needham
- How to actually learn data science | Dataquest Blog
- Why time flies when you’re older | Flowing Data
- Graphing a Lesson Learned Database for NASA Using Neo4j, R/RStudio & Linkurious | Neo4j Graph Database
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Automatic Restarting of Pods inside Replication Controller of Kubernetes Cluster | Java Code Geeks
- Containers + Private Cloud. Google Sponsors OpenStack Foundation | Google Cloud Platform
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Shopify: Remote Code Execution | Prakhar Prasad
- How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq | SkullSecurity
- More Visible Protection Against Unwanted Software | Google Online Security
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- Disaster Recovery using Google Cloud Platform | Google Cloud Platform
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – July 16, 2015 (#2055) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1525 | A Fresh Cup
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