There were a few interesting articles yesterday. First, The Next Web reports on another big Android security issue with MP3 files. Netflix announces Flux, an interesting look at your systems. Amazon AWS follows with two announcements, the CloudFormation Designer which should make CloudFormation much easier to use, and Elasticsearch Service, an AWS hosted elasticsearch instance.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Design and Development
- Customizing ES6 via well-known symbols | 2ality
- Designing a DSL to Describe Software Architecture (Part 2) | DZone Integration
- using imagemagick, awk and kmeans to find dominant colors in images | Javier Lopez
- Problems with typical Rails controllers and before actions | Ragnarson
- Responsive Images for Busy People: Srcset & Sizes | built visible
- Trying Rust for web services | We Are Wizards
- Flexible Feature Control at Instagram | Instagram Engineering
- Prediction Markets for Software Estimates | DaedTech
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- How distributed systems respond to degraded hardware | Dan Luu
- Detecting a permgen memory leak in a Java JBoss application | SmallData
- Flux: A New Approach to System Intuition | The Netflix Tech Blog
- Irreversible Failures: Lessons from the DynamoDB Outage | Scalyr Blog
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Linear Programming in Python with CVXOPT | Stéphane Caron
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Important Security Notice from Patreon | Patreon
- A single MP3 file could hijack your Android phone | The Next Web
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- New – AWS CloudFormation Designer + Support for More Services | AWS Official Blog
- New – Amazon Elasticsearch Service | AWS Official Blog
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1559 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – October 1, 2015 (#2102) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1560 | A Fresh Cup
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