Today, we start with a post from Brad Feld on Feld Thoughts. The story is actually an anonymous repost of one founder’s struggles with their startup. On All Things Distributed, we get a look “under the hood” of the EC2 Container Service. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of the Application Default Credentials feature, mainly because OAuth2 is hard to get right. I have not looked at this yet, but hopefully it is a big improvement.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Iterative or Incremental? | Allan Kelly
• Take a Long Walk in Your Customer’s Shoes | Don Pottinger
• What Makes a Developer Truly Professional | Embedded Use
• CMS Supplier Dilemma: RFP Schedules | RSI Content Solutions
• Sometimes I Ask Myself If The Juice Is Really Worth The Squeeze | Feld Thoughts

Design and Development

• Your Code Is Data | DaedTech
• API Design: We’ll let the users sort it out | Ayende @ Rahien
• A Practical Introduction to IoT using Arduino, Node.js and Plotly | Adil Moujahid
• Dropdowns Should be the UI of Last Resort | LukeW
• The most important TDD rule | Enterprise Craftsmanship
• Using Hibernate Bean Validator in Java SE | Inspired by Actual Events
• Smarter Grids With Sass And Susy | Smashing Magazine

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Algolia’s Fury Road to a Worldwide API Steps Part 2 | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• High dimensional integration, QMC, MCMC | John D. Cook
• Numerators of harmonic numbers | John D. Cook

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• R: Bootstrap confidence intervals | Mark Needham
• Interactive Audience Analytics With Spark and HyperLogLog | Eugene Zhulenev
• Frequency Counting Algorithms over Data Streams | Michael Vogiatzis

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service | All Things Distributed

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• It’s the Data, Stupid! | Shodan
• Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked | Krebs on Security

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Easier Auth for Google Cloud APIs. Introducing the Application Default Credentials feature. | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: July 20, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – July 20, 2015 (#2057) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1526 | A Fresh Cup