Google leads the day with two articles. First, they announce OnHub, their new router for “a new way to Wi-Fi”. It is fairly expensive for a router, so I would not be surprised to see this thing eventually get upgraded software to become part of the smart home, like Amazon’s Alexa. On the Google Research blog, they finally release some information on their network infrastructure. There are few companies that pump as much data through their network as Google, so it is definitely worth the read. In other news, WordPress released v4.3, codename “Billie”.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Don’t Be a Human Resource | DaedTech
• Eight Rules of Thumb for Winning in Business | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
• Here are the five most over-hyped technologies of 2015 according to Gartner | VentureBeat
• Entrepreneur’s Prerogative – Making Mistakes | Allen Morgan

Design and Development

• Rubber Duck Debugging – Problem Solving by Talking to Yourself | Atomic Object
• Don’t Like Throttling? | Java Code Geeks
• Eric Lippert’s Sharp Regrets | Lambda the Ultimate
• A Case Study in Analysing Latency: Lock vs Synchronized | Java Code Geeks
• Using Lua and C++ in practice. Part 1. Intro to ECS and basic principles | Elias Daler
• Cross-platform UI in GitHub Desktop | GitHub Engineering
• Common SQL Clauses and Their Equivalents in Java 8 Streams | Java Code Geeks

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Streaming Percentiles | Superfeedr
• A/B Testing with Hierarchical Models in Python | Domino
• Compressing Skeletal Animation Data | The Riot Games Engineering Tech Blog
• Pumping the Primes | bit-player

Enterprise and Web Content Management

• WordPress 4.3 “Billie” | WordPress

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• A New DDoS Reflection Attack: Portmapper; An Early Warning to the Industry | Beyond Bandwidth
• A Gentle Introduction to Application Security | Paragon Initiative Enterprises Blog
• Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked? | Krebs on Security

Fun and Other stuff

• Meet OnHub: a new router for a new way to Wi-Fi | Official Google Blog
• Pulling Back the Curtain on Google’s Network Infrastructure | Google Research

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – August 19, 2015 (#2072) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1542 | A Fresh Cup
• The Daily Six Pack: August 20, 2015 | Dirk Strauss