It was another slow news weekend. So, we lead with another car hacking story from VentureBeat. A researcher is claiming to be able to hack GM’s OnStar app, open the vehicle and start the engine. This is not entirely surprising, but thankfully not as bad as the hacked Jeep story we had recently. On the Google Developers blog, they continue their push for online security and talk about #NoHacked, how to avoid being the target of hackers.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• All you can eat software licenses when doing Continuous Delivery | Paul Hammant
• Using NDepend to Make You a Better Programmer | DaedTech
• The Value Of Being Transparent, Especially When It’s Hard | StatusPage

Design and Development

• Introducing Sixpack-java: A/B Testing for Android and Java Apps | ChairNerd
• Non-blocking Asynchronous JSON.parse Using The Fetch API | Mohsen Azimi
• The success of object oriented programming | John D Cook
• Friday Q&A 2015-07-31: Tagged Pointer Strings | Mike Ash
• Using Java 8 CompletableFuture and Rx-Java Observable | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Improving Facebook’s performance on Android with FlatBuffers | Facebook Code
• The impact of fast networks on graph analytics, part 2 | Frank McSherry

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Abstract Syntax Tree | HZ Bits
• Hacked Molecular Machine Could Pump Out Custom Chemicals | Scientific American

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Technology sector, share of market over time | Flowing Data
• How to Create NBA Shot Charts in Python | Savvas Tjortjoglou
• on ORDER BY optimization | domas mituzas
• Top high school plays and musicals, by decade | Flowing Data

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Is your team ready for DevOps? | Atlassian Developers

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Researcher says he can hack GM’s OnStar app, open vehicle, start engine | VentureBeat
• #NoHacked: How to avoid being the target of hackers | Google Developers Blog

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Connection Refused! | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1531 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – July 31, 2015 (#2065) | Morning Dew