Today we lead off with the start of a fascinating story on Krebs on Security, where he details his tracking of a skimmer gang in Mexico. On Application Security, they give us an example of CSRF against search in Lucene. Flowing Data shows us the new “exploration” features of Google Sheets. This is actually quite interesting for those people with some data in spreadsheets that do not want to jump into ML/AI or data science.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Why I don’t like to hire team leads | Java Code Geeks

Design and Development

• Is it just me or is networking really hard? | Gaffer on Games
• Fools Don’t Write Unit Tests | Java Code Geeks
• New C++ Features – Move Constructor and Move Assignment | Simplify C++!
• Android UI: Full Sample App | Java Code Geeks
• Joint Allocations in C++ | Nir’s Blog
• i hope webdav dies | blargh
• Calling a Linear Solver C Library from Go | David Raffensperger
• Configuring Spring Boot for Oracle | DZone Java
• An introduction to optimising a hashing strategy | Vanilla Java
• Innovation in Mobile Browsers, and the iPhone | Broken Links
• Resource Allocation Configuration for Spark on YARN | Java Code Geeks
• Go Testing + Docker | Eric Chiang
• Four Reasons to Use Maps Instead of Classes in Clojure | Atomic Object

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How Uber Scales Their Real-time Market Platform | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Stochastic geometric series | EFavDB

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Automatic charts and insights in Google Sheets | Flowing Data

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Exploiting CSRF against search with Lucene | Application Security
• Tracking a Bluetooth Skimmer Gang in Mexico | Krebs on Security
• The Beauty of Old-school Backdoors | IOActive Labs Research

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Easy Blue-Green Deployments on Amazon EC2 | Java Code Geeks

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: September 14, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1552 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – September 14, 2015 (#2089) | Morning Dew