Today’s lead story comes from Google where they announced that Android Wear will now will with iPhones. In the performance and scalability section, we have an article on HighScalability where they have a great overview of building globally distributed applications. At FastML, they talk about evaluating recommender systems, specifically getting past the typical RMSE (root mean square error) measurement.

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

Top Stories

• Android Wear now works with iPhones | Google Blog

Startups, Career and Process

• Why You Should Hire Computer Science Majors | Stephen Brennan
• What is ADD? | Adrusi
• Lessons After College | Jasdev Singh

Design and Development

• Programming With The Lowest Common Denominator | spiegelmock
• Why java.util.Optional is broken | Atlassian Developers

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Production postmortem: The case of the memory eater and high load | Ayende @ Rahien
• Building Globally Distributed, Mission Critical Applications: Lessons From the Trenches Part 1 | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Evaluating recommender systems | FastML
• An Introduction to Taxicab Geometry | Atomic Object
• How Etsy Uses Thermodynamics to Help You Search for “Geeky” | Code As Craft

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Bar Chart Baselines Start at Zero | Flowing Data
• A blazing fast geo database with LevelDB, Go and Geohashes | Fabrice Aneche
• Understanding Cloud Pricing Part 5 – NoSQL Databases | Google Cloud Platform

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• infrastructure as a database | learning with scripting

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• DRDoS, UDP-Based protocols and BitTorrent | The BitTorrent Engineering Blog
• Jailbreak attack reportedly stole more than 225,000 Apple logins | The Next Web
• Announcing Sleepy Puppy – Cross-Site Scripting Payload Management for Web Application Security Testing | Netflix Tech

Fun and Other stuff

• Understanding ETF “Flash Crashes” | FactSet Research Systems

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – August 31, 2015 (#2080) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: September 1, 2015 | Dirk Strauss