By now you have heard that Google is now a subsidiary of Alphabet. If you have not heard this yet, you clearly have been disconnected from all forms of media. This news has been covered, re-covered, analyzed and re-analyzed several times over. In other news, Google research talks about how they have improved transcription in Google Voice using neural networks. If you are interested in that kind of thing, it is a good read.

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

Top Stories

• G is for Google | Official Google Blog

Startups, Career and Process

• That Time a Developer Stole My Idea and Made Millions | Zero to Entrepreneur
• Why it’s so difficult to find Product/Market Fit | Alvin Tai

Design and Development

• The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work | Deep Design
• Building a desktop application with Electron | Kristian Poslek
• Server-sent events with RxJava and SseEmitter | Java Code Geeks
• Tips & Tricks for debugging unfamiliar AngularJS code | Localytics Engineering
• Longevity (or Lack Thereof) in JavaScript Frameworks | Bitovi
• Processing Twitter feed using Spring Boot | Java Code Geeks
• Source-Control that explicitly understands refactorings | Paul Hammant

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• What is new in RavenDB 3.5: Monitoring active I/O operations | Ayende @ Rahien
• What is the fastest Garbage Collector in Java 8? | Java Code Geeks
• Monitoring Connect applications | Atlassian Developers
• How we optimized binary search | Performance Engineering at Realm

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Labellio: Scalable Cloud Architecture for Efficient Multi-GPU Deep Learning | Parallel Forall
• The neural networks behind Google Voice transcription | Google Research
• How a Kalman filter works, in pictures | Bzarg

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Smarter Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW! | Avinash Kaushik
• Denver Broncos testing in-game analytics | Flowing Data
• Real Chart Rules to Follow | Flowing Data
• RethinkDB 2.1: high availability | RethinkDB

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• #NoHacked: Using two-factor authentication to protect your site | Google Webmaster Central

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Cloud rendering solutions by VFX artists for VFX artists | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: August 11, 2015 | Dirk Strauss