Today, the focus is on some development articles. First, Parse announces that they are open sourcing their SDKs. Next, Ember.js announces the release of Ember.js 2.0, a big milestone in that development. Smashing Magazine talks about the idea of “critical CSS”, the CSS that is needed to make the top part of the page render correctly while the rest is loading. Lastly, Stripe shows us how to run 3 hours of Ruby tests in under 3 minutes.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Intersection of the complexities | Ayende @ Rahien
- Learning programming at scale | O’Reilly Radar
- Why you’re afraid of public speaking | Nicholas Zakas
- What we learned from designing 200 pitch decks | SketchDeck
Design and Development
- Proposing CSS input modality | O’Reilly Radar
- “(null)” is a bad idea | Daemonic Dispatches
- Just Say No To The Rotating Slider | Catchi
- Legendary Update | David Haywood
- Ember.js 2.0 Released | Ember.js
- Understanding Critical CSS | Smashing Magazine
- Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes | Stripe
- Open Sourcing Our SDKs | Parse
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Solr Faceted Search Example | Java Code Geeks
- Spark, Parquet and S3 – It’s complicated | Java Code Geeks
- When Your MySQL DB Goes Awry there is a Free Tool to Provision and Manage MariaDB Cluster | CloudStats
- Global Data Consistency in Distributed (Microservice) Architectures | Java Code Geeks
- What ‘Game of Thrones’ Does to Your Heart Rate | WSJ
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Docker Toolbox makes it easier to get started with containers in development | The Next Web
- Building and Shipping at Ludicrous Speed | opsee
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1538 | A Fresh Cup
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