Leading today we have some interesting news and some that has been long expected. First, Windows 10 was released! The reviews are coming in and VentureBeat has a decent article on that. VentureBeat also reported on a new marketplace for startups, with Amazon partnering with Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. This is definitely an interesting development as Amazon continues to dominate the startup market. There are lots of other good articles today as well.

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

Top Stories

• Amazon partners with Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator on a new marketplace for startups | VentureBeat
• Review: 10 days with Windows 10 | VentureBeat

Startups, Career and Process

• Who Accept’s Your Team’s Academy Awards? | DaedTech
• Solve Problems by Thinking Small | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni

Design and Development

• Designing Flexible Pie Charts With CSS and SVG | Smashing Magazine
• Binary in Javascript | Dan the Dev
• Modals in React | ReactJS News
• Flux Architecture Visual Cheatsheet | A Techsolutionist’s Blog
• Why aren’t App Constellations working? | Andrew Chen
• Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly | Smashing Magazine
• Strong Web Application Architecture | Art of Software Development

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Tuning Tomcat For A High Throughput, Fail Fast System | The Netflix Tech Blog
• Profiling in Python | HumanGeo
• A Well Known But Forgotten Trick: Object Pooling | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Online Dating Analytics | 4Quant
• Mining usage patterns for the Android API | PeerJ
• How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone | Google Research

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Visualising how recruiters search | Information Interaction

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The Privacy Risk Of Behavioral Profiling | GodPraksis
• Huffman revisited – part 1 | RealTime Data Compression

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Bring Your Own Encryption Keys to Google Cloud Platform | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: July 29, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1529 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – July 29, 2015 (#2063) | Morning Dew