Our focus for today returns to security. First, on Google Webmaster Central they talk about identifying and diagnosing injected gibberish URL hacking. Anyone that runs their own or others’ websites should definitely read this. On thecomputerperson, they relate how Twitter is leaking your friends’ and family’s emails. Granted, you need to know what email address a user signed up for Twitter with, but it is not hard to get there. Lastly, The Next Web reports on further information about the IRS hack, where there could be another 220,000 accounts affected. That hack keeps getting scarier.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- AlignmentMap | Martin Fowler
Design and Development
- Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules | Jake Archibald
- Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview | The Netflix Tech Blog
- From Imperative to Pure-Functional and Back Again: Monads vs. Scoped Continuations | Java Code Geeks
- Are annotations bad? | Java Code Geeks
- Fenwick Trees | loonytek
- Code reading: Wukong full-text search engine | Ayende @ Rahien
- Working toward Bret Victor’s “Learnable Programming” | Code Connect
- Stop pushing redux | QuirksBlog
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- How Autodesk Implemented Scalable Eventing over Mesos | High Scalability
- Examples of caching backfiring on performance | Java Code Geeks
- Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet | Pinterest Engineering
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Keen IO open-sources its Data Explorer tool for making quick queries | VentureBeat
- Setting PostgreSQL psql Variable Based Upon Query Result | Inspired by Actual Events
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Containers: Docker, Windows and Trends | Microsoft Azure Blog
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- #NoHacked: Identifying and Diagnosing Injected Gibberish URL Hacking | Google Webmaster Central
- Twitter leaks friends and family information. | thecomputerperson
- The IRS hack may have hit another 220,000 accounts | The Next Web
Fun and Other stuff
- Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Rechargeable Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes | SciTechDaily
- Will There Be A Distributed HTTP | Mark Nottingham
Link Collections
- The Daily Six Pack: August 18, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
- Dew Drop – August 18, 2015 (#2071) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1541 | A Fresh Cup
Regular Geek 