Valeria Maltoni starts our day with her latest post on Conversation Agent. She talks about APIs as personal systems, and it is an interesting look at our use of applications and our data. Andreessen Horowitz gives us 16 more startup metrics. Just like their first 16 metrics, this is another must read. Johanna Rothman adds another installment in her series about resource efficiency and flow efficiency. If you haven’t figured it out yet, I think everyone should be reading that series.

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

Top Stories

• APIs as Personal Systems in the Networked Marketplace | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni

Startups, Career and Process

• 16 More Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
• Resource Efficiency vs. Flow Efficiency, Part 5: How Flow Changes Everything | Johanna Rothman

Design and Development

• The Compositional Approach to Model View ViewModel with the Observable Property | DZone Agile
• Scala typeclass explained: Implement a String.read function | Java Code Geeks
• Taking away a damaging tool | John D Cook
• TDD is not a design methodology | pulloware.com
• Subversion Merge Limitations | Paul Hammant

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• How will new memory technologies impact in-memory databases? | High Scalability
• Multiplexing: TCP vs HTTP2 | DZone Integration

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Cooperation and corruption | Nectunt Blog
• Google voice search: faster and more accurate | Google Research

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Rewinder: Interactive Analysis of Hadoop’s Computational Resources | LinkedIn Engineering
• The route to hyper-personalization: Overcoming 4 hurdles in Hadoop | VentureBeat
• Dissecting the Big Data Twitter Community through a Big data Lens | KDNuggets
• Interactive explanation for how neurons work | Flowing Data

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Don’t expose the Docker socket (not even to a container) | lvh
• Managing Hadoop Job Submission to Multiple Clusters | Code as Craft

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Bidding for Breaches, Redefining Targeted Attacks | Krebs on Security
• 5.6 million fingerprints stolen in personnel data hack, U.S. government says | VentureBeat
• [CSP] Third Party Integrations and Privilege Separation | Dropbox

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Understanding Cloud Pricing Part 5.2 – More NoSQL Databases | Google Cloud platform

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – September 24, 2015 (#2097) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: September 25, 2015 | Dirk Strauss